UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68162

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: avoid authenable 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 ca...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68162

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - sctp: avoid authenable sysctl UAF during netns teardown procsctpdoauth updates the SCTP control socket after changing net.sctp.authenable. The handler gets the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: sysctl: authenable: avoid using current-nsproxy As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the net structure via current is not recommended for various reasons: - Inconsistency: obtaining information from the...

CVE-2025-21638

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: sysctl: authenable: avoid using current-nsproxy As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net' structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons: - Inconsistency: getting info from the...

CVE-2025-21638

CVE-2025-21638 affects the Linux kernel SCTP sysctl: auth_enable. Root cause: using current->nsproxy can be NULL or inconsistently reflect netns, causing potential issues; remediation fixes rely on obtaining net from table->data via container_of() rather than current. Affected advisories in...

CVE-2025-21638 sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: avoid using current->nsproxy

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: sysctl: authenable: avoid using current-nsproxy As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net' structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons: - Inconsistency: getting info from the...

Null pointer dereference

The sctpsfdo51Dce function in net/sctp/smstatefuns.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not validate certain authenable and authcapable fields before making an sctpsfauthenticate call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an...