{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-07-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: sctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff",
    "id" : "2502331",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502331"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-367",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nsctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff\nsctp_wait_for_connect() drops and re-acquires the socket lock while\nwaiting for the association to reach ESTABLISHED state. During this\nwindow, another thread can peeloff the association to a new socket via\ngetsockopt(SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF), changing asoc->base.sk. After\nre-acquiring the old socket lock, sctp_wait_for_connect() returns\nsuccess without noticing the migration — the caller then accesses\nthe association under the wrong lock in sctp_datamsg_from_user().\nAdd the same sk != asoc->base.sk check that sctp_wait_for_sndbuf()\nalready has, returning an error if the association was migrated while\nwe slept.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A race condition exists in the sctp_wait_for_connect() function, where a socket lock is temporarily released and re-acquired. During this brief period, another process can move the SCTP association to a different socket. This can cause subsequent operations to access memory incorrectly, potentially leading to system instability or denial of service." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63971\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63971\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026071959-CVE-2026-63971-dd46@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-63971",
  "csaw" : false
}