CVE-2026-23125 — sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT

Affected: Linux

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

sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT

A null-ptr-deref was reported in the SCTP transmit path when SCTP-AUTH key initialization fails:

================================================================== KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G W 6.6.0 #2 RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_bundle_auth net/sctp/output.c:264 [inline] RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_append_chunk+0xb36/0x1260 net/sctp/output.c:401 Call Trace:

sctp_packet_transmit_chunk+0x31/0x250 net/sctp/output.c:189 sctp_outq_flush_data+0xa29/0x26d0 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1111 sctp_outq_flush+0xc80/0x1240 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1217 sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.0+0x19a5/0x62c0 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1787 sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1198 [inline] sctp_do_sm+0x1a3/0x670 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1169 sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x33e/0x640 net/sctp/associola.c:1052 sctp_inq_push+0x1dd/0x280 net/sctp/inqueue.c:88 sctp_rcv+0x11ae/0x3100 net/sctp/input.c:243 sctp6_rcv+0x3d/0x60 net/sctp/ipv6.c:1127

The issue is triggered when sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() fails in sctp_sf_do_5_1C_ack() while processing an INIT_ACK. In this case, the command sequence is currently:

- SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT - SCTP_CMD_TIMER_STOP (T1_INIT) - SCTP_CMD_TIMER_START (T1_COOKIE) - SCTP_CMD_NEW_STATE (COOKIE_ECHOED) - SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY - SCTP_CMD_GEN_COOKIE_ECHO

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USN-8162-1 — linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Drivers core; - Bluetooth drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers; - IIO ADC drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - Modular ISDN driver; - LED subsystem; - UACCE accelerator framework; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - NVME drivers; - PHY drivers; - SLIMbus drivers; - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NTFS3 file system; - SMB network file system; - NFC subsystem; - BPF subsystem; - IRQ subsystem; - Memory management; - Bluetooth subsystem; - CAN network layer; - Networking core; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - L2TP protocol; - Netfilter; - NET/ROM layer; - Network traffic control; - SCTP protocol; - TLS protocol; - XFRM subsystem; - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver; - USB sound devices; (CVE-2023-53421, CVE-2023-53520, CVE-2023-53662, CVE-2023-54207, CVE-2025-37849, CVE-2025-38057, CVE-2025-38125, CVE-2025-38232, CVE-2025-38408, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-4014…

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CVE-2026-23125 — sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT

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