# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74752"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:36:59.548Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:23.915Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74752"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74752.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74752"
title: "sctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use\n\nWhen cookie authentication is disabled, COOKIE_ECHO restores fixed-size\nAUTH fields directly from peer-controlled cookie bytes.  A forged RANDOM\nlength, HMAC list, or CHUNKS list can then reach association consumers\nwith lengths or identifiers that were never validated against the local\nbacking arrays.\n\nA forged RANDOM length can cause out-of-bounds reads during key-vector\nconstruction.  A forged HMAC identifier also caused a 32-byte write past\na zero-length AUTH chunk, providing a primitive for a local privilege\nescalation chain.\n\nValidate the cookie's RANDOM, HMACS, and CHUNKS parameters at the cookie\ntrust boundary before copying them into the association.  Reject invalid\ntypes, malformed lengths, unsupported HMAC identifiers, HMAC lists\nwithout SHA1, and forbidden chunk ids."
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