In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
sctp_assoc_add_peer() increments the associations 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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09e722030e8148ba4ed1e42c6b2ea57bda9f9895
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ba5bf7ed50f235ea4581de8e7a0002f4ed287b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546221b86ceeba0d8fec92d46a0604bb7b62be07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6201cd1d70f1670c5b31ac506e7ab2fa7b8e7f75
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd0e9289e2642f6a5c54faad304ce0f41e926d22