CVE-2026-64564

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

sctp: dont free the ASCONFs own transport in DEL-IP processing

sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, set once in sctp_rcv()). For an ASCONF located through its Address Parameter by __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup(), that cached transport corresponds to the Address Parameter, which need not be the packets source address.

sctp_process_asconf_param() rejects a DEL-IP for the packet source address (ADDIP D8, SCTP_ERROR_DEL_SRC_IP), but nothing protects asconf->transport. A single ASCONF can therefore carry, in order:

[Address Parameter L] [DEL-IP L] [DEL-IP 0.0.0.0]

where L differs from the source. The DEL-IP for L passes the D8 check and calls sctp_assoc_rm_peer() on the transport that asconf->transport still points at, freeing it (RCU-deferred). The following wildcard DEL-IP then reuses the now-dangling asconf->transport in sctp_assoc_set_primary() and sctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers(): set_primary() dereferences the freed transport (->ipaddr, ->state) and plants the dangling pointer into asoc->peer.primary_path / active_path, and del_nonprimary_peers(), keeping only the pointer that is no longer on the list, removes every real transport, leaving the association with a transport_count of 0 and primary_path/active_path pointing at freed memory.

Reject a DEL-IP that targets the transport the ASCONF is being processed against, mirroring the existing source-address guard, so the wildcard branch can never reuse a freed transport.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e8f3e7114f0e26d1b2c4c048044db9fcc27603
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85aca407c560aba81b5ce9d3d6cf94c74077d19b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b2854f86f0b56e9027d68e7a3fc909d1a9b566f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d136b29bf91dd8e3161281b87de597b7311d9462
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fedeb4468987bcaff85fe3061de5ae052d414740
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/07/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/07/2