CVE-2026-72447

About vulnerability

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

sctp: hold socket lock when dumping endpoints in sctp_diag

SCTP_DIAG endpoint dumping was traversing endpoint address lists without holding lock_sock(), while those lists could change concurrently via socket operations (e.g., bindx changes). This creates a race where nla_reserve() counts addresses under RCU protection, but the subsequent copy may see fewer entries, potentially leaking uninitialized memory to userspace.

Fix this by:

• Taking a reference on each endpoint during hash traversal
• Moving socket operations (lock_sock()) outside read_lock_bh()
• Serializing address list access during dump
• Reworking sctp_for_each_endpoint() to support restart-based traversal with (net, pos) tracking

Also:

• Add WARN_ON_ONCE() for inconsistent address counts
• Fix idiag_states filtering for LISTEN vs association cases
• Skip dumping endpoints being freed (ep->base.dead)
• Move dump position tracking into iterator, removing cb->args[4] and its comment for sctp_ep_dump().,
• Update the comment for cb->args[4] and remove the comment for unused cb->args[5] for sctp_sock_dump().

Note: traversal is restart-based and may re-scan buckets multiple times, but this is acceptable due to small bucket sizes and required to support sleeping-safe callbacks.

This issue was reported by Nico Yip (@cyeaa) working with TrendAI Zero Day Initiative.

Affected product:

Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

linux @ 5.10.259 (+3 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.