Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip
CVE-2023-53372
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip
Currently, when traversing ifwdtsn skips with _sctp_walk_ifwdtsn, it only checks the pos against the end of the chunk. However, the data left for the last pos may be < sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip), and dereference it as struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip may cause coverflow.
This patch fixes it by checking the pos against "the end of the chunk - sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip)" in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip, similar to sctp_fwdtsn_skip.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.16
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/32832a2caf82663870126c5186cf8f86c8b2a649mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbd094d4131a10d06a45d64158567052a35b3f4mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9367ac5a22d71841bcd00130f9146c9b227d57mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6109f5b13ce3e3e537db6f18976ec0e9118d1c6fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/79b28f42214a3d0d6a8c514db3602260bd5d6cb5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad831a7079c99c01e801764b53bc9997c2e9c0f7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad988e9b5ff04607e624a459209e8c2d0c15fc73mitre
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