CVE-2026-63971

Updated on 19 Jul 2026

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8

Overview

About vulnerability

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

sctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff

sctp_wait_for_connect() drops and re-acquires the socket lock while waiting for the association to reach ESTABLISHED state. During this window, another thread can peeloff the association to a new socket via getsockopt(SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF), changing asoc->base.sk. After re-acquiring the old socket lock, sctp_wait_for_connect() returns success without noticing the migration — the caller then accesses the association under the wrong lock in sctp_datamsg_from_user().

Add the same sk != asoc->base.sk check that sctp_wait_for_sndbuf() already has, returning an error if the association was migrated while we slept.

Details

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Debian 12 Planned