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Vendor revision: Oct 15, 2026Release Notes
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- 6.6.158.1-1
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CVE-2026-72413. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling
When sctp_verify_init() encounters unrecognized parameters, it allocates an err_chunk to report them. However, this chunk is leaked in several code paths:
1. In sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init(), if security_sctp_assoc_request() fails after sctp_verify_init() has populated err_chunk, the function returns immediately without freeing it.
2. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), the same leak occurs on the security_sctp_assoc_request() failure path.
3. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), on the success path after copying unrecognized parameters to the INIT-ACK, the function returns without freeing err_chunk, unlike sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init() which properly frees it.
Fix all three leaks by adding sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk) calls before returning in the error paths and on the success path in sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init().
Source: NVD