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GHSA-5P9G-WPQ2-JMM7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-18 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-12 18:30

Details

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

sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip

Currently, when traversing ifwdtsn skips with _sctp_walk_ifwdtsn, it only checks the pos against the end of the chunk. However, the data left for the last pos may be < sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip), and dereference it as struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip may cause coverflow.

This patch fixes it by checking the pos against "the end of the chunk - sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip)" in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip, similar to sctp_fwdtsn_skip.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2023-53372 (GCVE-0-2023-53372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 13:33 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:13

Title

sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip Currently, when traversing ifwdtsn skips with _sctp_walk_ifwdtsn, it only checks the pos against the end of the chunk. However, the data left for the last pos may be < sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip), and dereference it as struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip may cause coverflow. This patch fixes it by checking the pos against "the end of the chunk - sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip)" in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip, similar to sctp_fwdtsn_skip.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbd094d4131a10d0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad831a7079c99c01e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79b28f42214a3d0d6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6109f5b13ce3e3e53…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9367ac5a22d7184…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad988e9b5ff04607e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32832a2caf8266387…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < 4fbd094d4131a10d06a45d64158567052a35b3f4 (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < ad831a7079c99c01e801764b53bc9997c2e9c0f7 (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < 79b28f42214a3d0d6a8c514db3602260bd5d6cb5 (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < 6109f5b13ce3e3e537db6f18976ec0e9118d1c6f (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < 5c9367ac5a22d71841bcd00130f9146c9b227d57 (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < ad988e9b5ff04607e624a459209e8c2d0c15fc73 (git) Affected: 0fc2ea922c8ad5520c80f03facbf396c81dce802 , < 32832a2caf82663870126c5186cf8f86c8b2a649 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.281 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.241 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.178 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.108 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.25 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.12 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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