CVE-2026-68162

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68162
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68162.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-68162
Downstream
Published
2026-08-10T11:59:29.099Z
Modified
2026-08-25T03:51:38.445246087Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
Details

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

sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown

procsctpdoauth() updates the SCTP control socket after changing net.sctp.authenable. The handler gets the per-net SCTP state from ctl->data, so an already opened sysctl file can still target a network namespace while that namespace is being torn down.

SCTP previously registered its per-net sysctls from sctpdefaultsinit(), while the control socket is created later from sctpctrlsockinit(). This exposed a window during initialization where authenable was writable before net->sctp.ctlsock existed, and a teardown window where authenable stayed writable after inetctlsockdestroy() had released the control socket.

Move the per-net SCTP sysctl registration into sctpctrlsockinit() after sctpctlsockinit() succeeds, and unregister the sysctl table before destroying the control socket in sctpctrlsock_exit(). If sysctl registration fails after the control socket was created, destroy the control socket in the same init path.

Make sctpsysctlnet_unregister() tolerate a missing header and clear the saved pointer so init-error and exit paths can safely share the unregister helper.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68162.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
10c869a52f266e40f548cc3c565d14930a5edafc
Fixed
19573dcddb8819fd68d6cd1f916c1c99c3fa4ff4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
dc583e7e5f8515ca489c0df28e4362a70eade382
Fixed
ceb7190b5c873d4a1267a1600c5aa52c600e929f
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
bd2a2939423566c654545fa3e96a656662a0af9e
Fixed
fd66854a22661929245f3d2b244c432bc8b1a150
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1b67030d39f2b00f94ac1f0af11ba6657589e4d3
Fixed
158f3cc332dc53f43ec20060233d7c3cecd6d912
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
7ec30c54f339c640aa7e49d7e9f7bbed6bd42bf6
Fixed
66700c0719675e0e118ae83b2d7168dacd69dd3d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c184bc621e3cef03ac9ba81a50dda2dae6a21d36
Fixed
626bda8cfe43dff19a9833ff6ba055a817b5455c
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
15649fd5415eda664ef35780c2013adeb5d9c695
Fixed
be6aae9d1b91c603adb35872d37d40e83daf8758
Fixed
a50e73488e0bbdd262b3be3c9a1d8dd078382381
Fixed
f8d5e7846025f4ab15a461235f8ebae9094a361a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.4.290
Fixed
5.4.292
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.10.234
Fixed
5.10.266
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.177
Fixed
5.15.217
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.1.125
Fixed
6.1.184
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.6.72
Fixed
6.6.151
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.12.10
Fixed
6.12.101

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.10.234
v5.10.235
v5.10.236
v5.10.237
v5.10.238
v5.10.239
v5.10.240
v5.10.241
v5.10.242
v5.10.243
v5.10.244
v5.10.245
v5.10.246
v5.10.247
v5.10.248
v5.10.249
v5.10.250
v5.10.251
v5.10.252
v5.10.253
v5.10.254
v5.10.255
v5.10.256
v5.10.257
v5.10.258
v5.10.259
v5.10.260
v5.10.261
v5.10.262
v5.10.263
v5.10.264
v5.10.265
v5.15.177
v5.15.178
v5.15.179
v5.15.180
v5.15.181
v5.15.182
v5.15.183
v5.15.184
v5.15.185
v5.15.186
v5.15.187
v5.15.188
v5.15.189
v5.15.190
v5.15.191
v5.15.192
v5.15.193
v5.15.194
v5.15.195
v5.15.196
v5.15.197
v5.15.198
v5.15.199
v5.15.200
v5.15.201
v5.15.202
v5.15.203
v5.15.204
v5.15.205
v5.15.206
v5.15.207
v5.15.208
v5.15.209
v5.15.210
v5.15.211
v5.15.212
v5.15.213
v5.15.214
v5.15.215
v5.15.216
v5.4.290
v5.4.291
v6.*
v6.1.125
v6.1.126
v6.1.127
v6.1.128
v6.1.129
v6.1.130
v6.1.131
v6.1.132
v6.1.133
v6.1.134
v6.1.135
v6.1.136
v6.1.137
v6.1.138
v6.1.139
v6.1.140
v6.1.141
v6.1.142
v6.1.143
v6.1.144
v6.1.145
v6.1.146
v6.1.147
v6.1.148
v6.1.149
v6.1.150
v6.1.151
v6.1.152
v6.1.153
v6.1.154
v6.1.155
v6.1.156
v6.1.157
v6.1.158
v6.1.159
v6.1.160
v6.1.161
v6.1.162
v6.1.163
v6.1.164
v6.1.165
v6.1.166
v6.1.167
v6.1.168
v6.1.169
v6.1.170
v6.1.171
v6.1.172
v6.1.173
v6.1.174
v6.1.175
v6.1.176
v6.1.177
v6.1.178
v6.1.179
v6.1.180
v6.1.181
v6.1.182
v6.1.183
v6.12.10
v6.12.100
v6.12.11
v6.12.12
v6.12.13
v6.12.14
v6.12.15
v6.12.16
v6.12.17
v6.12.18
v6.12.19
v6.12.20
v6.12.21
v6.12.22
v6.12.23
v6.12.24
v6.12.25
v6.12.26
v6.12.27
v6.12.28
v6.12.29
v6.12.30
v6.12.31
v6.12.32
v6.12.33
v6.12.34
v6.12.35
v6.12.36
v6.12.37
v6.12.38
v6.12.39
v6.12.40
v6.12.41
v6.12.42
v6.12.43
v6.12.44
v6.12.45
v6.12.46
v6.12.47
v6.12.48
v6.12.49
v6.12.50
v6.12.51
v6.12.52
v6.12.53
v6.12.54
v6.12.55
v6.12.56
v6.12.57
v6.12.58
v6.12.59
v6.12.60
v6.12.61
v6.12.62
v6.12.63
v6.12.64
v6.12.65
v6.12.66
v6.12.67
v6.12.68
v6.12.69
v6.12.70
v6.12.71
v6.12.72
v6.12.73
v6.12.74
v6.12.75
v6.12.76
v6.12.77
v6.12.78
v6.12.79
v6.12.80
v6.12.81
v6.12.82
v6.12.83
v6.12.84
v6.12.85
v6.12.86
v6.12.87
v6.12.88
v6.12.89
v6.12.90
v6.12.91
v6.12.92
v6.12.93
v6.12.94
v6.12.95
v6.12.96
v6.12.97
v6.12.98
v6.12.99
v6.6.100
v6.6.101
v6.6.102
v6.6.103
v6.6.104
v6.6.105
v6.6.106
v6.6.107
v6.6.108
v6.6.109
v6.6.110
v6.6.111
v6.6.112
v6.6.113
v6.6.114
v6.6.115
v6.6.116
v6.6.117
v6.6.118
v6.6.119
v6.6.120
v6.6.121
v6.6.122
v6.6.123
v6.6.124
v6.6.125
v6.6.126
v6.6.127
v6.6.128
v6.6.129
v6.6.130
v6.6.131
v6.6.132
v6.6.133
v6.6.134
v6.6.135
v6.6.136
v6.6.137
v6.6.138
v6.6.139
v6.6.140
v6.6.141
v6.6.142
v6.6.143
v6.6.144
v6.6.145
v6.6.146
v6.6.147
v6.6.148
v6.6.149
v6.6.150
v6.6.72
v6.6.73
v6.6.74
v6.6.75
v6.6.76
v6.6.77
v6.6.78
v6.6.79
v6.6.80
v6.6.81
v6.6.82
v6.6.83
v6.6.84
v6.6.85
v6.6.86
v6.6.87
v6.6.88
v6.6.89
v6.6.90
v6.6.91
v6.6.92
v6.6.93
v6.6.94
v6.6.95
v6.6.96
v6.6.97
v6.6.98
v6.6.99

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68162.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.4.292
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.266
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.217
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.184
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.151
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.42
Fixed
7.1.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68162.json"