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[PATCH net] sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-07-10 18:12:38
Also in: linux-sctp
Subsystem: networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds

The auth_hmacs array in struct sctp_cookie is supposed to store a complete
SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ALGO parameter, which consists of a struct sctp_paramhdr
followed by N HMAC identifiers.

However, the array size was calculated using an extra 2 bytes instead of
sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr), which is 4 bytes. When four HMAC identifiers
are configured, the HMAC-ALGO parameter stored in the endpoint is larger
than the auth_hmacs buffer in the cookie.

As a result, sctp_association_init() copies beyond the end of auth_hmacs
when initializing the association, corrupting the adjacent auth_chunks
field. This can lead to an invalid HMAC identifier being accepted and later
cause an out-of-bounds read in sctp_auth_get_hmac().

Fix the array size calculation by including the full SCTP parameter header
size.

Fixes: 1f485649f529 ("[SCTP]: Implement SCTP-AUTH internals")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <redacted>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <redacted>
Reported-by: Zihan Xi <redacted>
Reported-by: Ren Wei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
---
 include/net/sctp/structs.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index affee44bd38e..cccc662561aa 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ struct sctp_cookie {
 
 	__u8 auth_random[sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr) +
 			 SCTP_AUTH_RANDOM_LENGTH];
-	__u8 auth_hmacs[SCTP_AUTH_NUM_HMACS * sizeof(__u16) + 2];
+	__u8 auth_hmacs[sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr) +
+			SCTP_AUTH_NUM_HMACS * sizeof(__u16)];
 	__u8 auth_chunks[sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr) + SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS];
 
 	/* This is a shim for my peer's INIT packet, followed by
-- 
2.47.1
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