CVE-2022-50243

sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

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

sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key

When it returns an error from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key(), the active_key is actually not updated. The old sh_key will be freeed while it's still used as active key in asoc. Then an use-after-free will be triggered when sending patckets, as found by syzbot:

sctp_auth_shkey_hold+0x22/0xa0 net/sctp/auth.c:112 sctp_set_owner_w net/sctp/socket.c:132 [inline] sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0xbd5/0x1a20 net/sctp/socket.c:1863 sctp_sendmsg+0x1053/0x1d50 net/sctp/socket.c:2025 inet_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734

This patch is to fix it by not replacing the sh_key when it returns errors from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() in sctp_auth_set_key(). For sctp_auth_set_active_key(), old active_key_id will be set back to asoc->active_key_id when the same thing happens.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 50b57223da67653c61e405d0a7592355cfe4585e to before b8fa99a3a11bdd77fef6b4a97f1021eb30b5ba40Affected
  • b60461696a0b0fdaf240bc365b7983698f88ded2 to before 382ff44716603a54f5fd238ddec6a2468e217612Affected
  • 8eb225873246312660ccd68296959a7b213d0cdd to before f65955340e0044f5c41ac799a01698ac7dee8a4eAffected
  • 58acd10092268831e49de279446c314727101292 to before 19d636b663e0e92951bba5fced929ca7fd25c552Affected
  • 58acd10092268831e49de279446c314727101292 to before 0f90099d18e3abdc01babf686f41f63fe04939c1Affected
  • 58acd10092268831e49de279446c314727101292 to before 3b0fcf5e29c0940e1169ce9c44f73edd98bdf12dAffected
  • 58acd10092268831e49de279446c314727101292 to before 022152aaebe116a25c39818a07e175a8cd3c1e11Affected
  • c1de376423a7759bf4fa25d6a038a4c1e035c9e1Affected
  • 4.19.199 to before 4.19.262Affected
  • 5.4.136 to before 5.4.220Affected
  • 5.10.54 to before 5.10.150Affected
  • 5.13.6 to before 5.14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 4.19.262 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.220 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.150 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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