CVE-2026-74588 Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.138.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-20958976
  • published15 Oct 2026
  • disclosed14 Oct 2026

Introduced: 14 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-74588  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 cluster-md-kmp-default to version 6.4.0-150600.23.138.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cluster-md-kmp-default package and not the cluster-md-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

sctp: keep chunk->transport in step with the list it is queued on

__sctp_outq_flush_rtx() moves a gap-acked chunk onto another transport's transmitted list without updating chunk->transport:

if (chunk-&gt;tsn_gap_acked) {
    list_move_tail(&amp;chunk-&gt;transmitted_list,
               &amp;transport-&gt;transmitted);
    continue;
}

The chunk then sits on a live transport's list while chunk->transport still names a different one. If that transport is removed - sctp_assoc_rm_peer() from an ASCONF Delete-IP - sctp_transport_free() RCU-frees it and the chunk is left with a dangling pointer. sctp_assoc_rm_peer() scrubs peer->transmitted and asoc->outqueue.out_chunk_list, but the chunk is on neither.

The pointer is not followed while tsn_gap_acked is set. A SACK that reneges on the TSN clears the flag, and the next SACK reaches

tchunk-&gt;transport-&gt;flight_size -= sctp_data_size(tchunk);

inside the freed transport. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free read in sctp_check_transmitted(), freed from sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Both the removal and the SACKs come from the association peer.

Set chunk->transport at the move. The ordinary resend path needs nothing: it reaches its list_move_tail() only after sctp_packet_append_chunk() returned SCTP_XMIT_OK, and __sctp_packet_append_chunk() has rebound the chunk by then.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

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