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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 21, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-57938

CVE-2024-57938

Description

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

net/sctp: Prevent autoclose integer overflow in sctp_association_init()

While by default max_autoclose equals to INT_MAX / HZ, one may set net.sctp.max_autoclose to UINT_MAX. There is code in sctp_association_init() that can consequently trigger overflow.

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