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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-68162

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/10/2026 9:20:02 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown

proc_sctp_do_auth() updates the SCTP control socket after changing
net.sctp.auth_enable. The handler gets the per-net SCTP state from
ctl->data, so an already opened sysctl file can still target a network
namespace while that namespace is being torn down.

SCTP previously registered its per-net sysctls from sctp_defaults_init(),
while the control socket is created later from sctp_ctrlsock_init(). This
exposed a window during initialization where auth_enable was writable
before net->sctp.ctl_sock existed, and a teardown window where auth_enable
stayed writable after inet_ctl_sock_destroy() had released the control
socket.

Move the per-net SCTP sysctl registration into sctp_ctrlsock_init() after
sctp_ctl_sock_init() succeeds, and unregister the sysctl table before
destroying the control socket in sctp_ctrlsock_exit(). If sysctl
registration fails after the control socket was created, destroy the
control socket in the same init path.

Make sctp_sysctl_net_unregister() tolerate a missing header and clear the
saved pointer so init-error and exit paths can safely share the unregister
helper.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19573dcddb8819fd68d6cd1f916c1c99c3fa4ff4
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/626bda8cfe43dff19a9833ff6ba055a817b5455c
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66700c0719675e0e118ae83b2d7168dacd69dd3d
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a50e73488e0bbdd262b3be3c9a1d8dd078382381
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be6aae9d1b91c603adb35872d37d40e83daf8758
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d5e7846025f4ab15a461235f8ebae9094a361a
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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