Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-74469

Title: Linux kernel sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow OOB write

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2026-74469

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Aug 15, 2026
Modified Date Aug 19, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 8.8 CVSS v
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-74469: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow sctp_assoc_add_peer() increments the association's 16-bit transport_count for every new unique peer. Adding the 65,536th transport wraps the count to zero. SCTP sock_diag uses transport_count to reserve the INET_DIAG_PEERS payload, then copies one sockaddr_storage for every entry in transport_addr_list. After the wrap, a diagnostic dump reserves an empty payload and writes 8 MiB of peer addresses past the skb tail. Reject a new unique peer when transport_count has reached U16_MAX. Perform the check after the existing-peer lookup so a duplicate address continues to return its existing transport at the limit.

CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Severity HIGH
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2026-74469 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/0xBlackash/CVE-2026-74469
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Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.