CVE-2026-74469 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.243.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.47% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-20957035
  • published15 Oct 2026
  • disclosed14 Oct 2026

Introduced: 14 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.243.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow

sctp_assoc_add_peer() increments the association's 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1