CVE-2026-72413

sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 3, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling

When sctp_verify_init() encounters unrecognized parameters, it allocates an err_chunk to report them. However, this chunk is leaked in several code paths:

1. In sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init(), if security_sctp_assoc_request() fails after sctp_verify_init() has populated err_chunk, the function returns immediately without freeing it.

2. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), the same leak occurs on the security_sctp_assoc_request() failure path.

3. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), on the success path after copying unrecognized parameters to the INIT-ACK, the function returns without freeing err_chunk, unlike sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init() which properly frees it.

Fix all three leaks by adding sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk) calls before returning in the error paths and on the success path in sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init().

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before a8e6a839c0e7ca1da752faaab51e2eafb17483a4Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 43ddbcdc0ed74a8fba4aff5e623ace8135411b93Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 6acedac7a14af71cfe25024ead28e16a070899e4Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 1cae40d423a2042c7970f29c00028951ec20db8aAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 94f55994e19e8f0676990b9d5015b58ab6a97e00Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9f58a0a4d6c2ed5d341bba64f058f15d1b0c36f2Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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