{"id":7041,"date":"2026-09-04T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-72398"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:24","slug":"cve-2026-72398","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-72398","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-72398 [CRITICAL] &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: add INIT verifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking<\/p>\n<p>In SCTP handshake, the INIT chunk is initially processed by the server<br \/>\nand embedded into the cookie carried in INIT-ACK. The client then<br \/>\nreturns this cookie via COOKIE-ECHO, where the server unpacks it and<br \/>\nreconstructs the original INIT chunk.<\/p>\n<p>When cookie authentication is enabled, the cookie contents are protected<br \/>\nagainst tampering, so reusing the unpacked INIT without re-verification<br \/>\nis safe.<\/p>\n<p>However, when cookie authentication is disabled, the reconstructed INIT<br \/>\ncan no longer be trusted. In this case, the INIT must be explicitly<br \/>\nvalidated after unpacking to avoid processing potentially tampered data.<\/p>\n<p>Add sctp_verify_init() checks after cookie unpacking in COOKIE-ECHO<br \/>\nprocessing paths (sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce() and sctp_sf_do_5_2_4_dupcook())<br \/>\nwhen cookie_auth_enable is disabled. On failure, the new association is<br \/>\nfreed and the packet is discarded.<\/p>\n<p>Also tighten cookie validation in sctp_unpack_cookie() by verifying the<br \/>\nembedded chunk type is SCTP_CID_INIT before treating it as an INIT<br \/>\nchunk.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, update sctp_verify_init() to validate parameter bounds using<br \/>\nthe actual embedded INIT length instead of chunk-&gt;chunk_end, since the<br \/>\nINIT stored in COOKIE-ECHO may not span the entire chunk buffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking<\/p>\n<p>In SCTP handshake, the INIT chunk is initially processed by the server<br \/>\nand embe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/7041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}