Overview
About vulnerability
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.
Details
- Affected product:
- Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+3 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2 | Planned | — |
| Debian 12 | Planned | — |
| Debian 13 | Released |
15 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 7 UEK 6 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 6 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Planned | — |