sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
CVE-2026-53070 · published 24 Jun 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.5 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to < 7f0062c40781fe0a340965f5bb0816681982ff4c, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to < be3bfcb34bda04f6a350710db471d4133f950f2c, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to < 0de7db2eb27e82b983157016fa604b1ba664ae5f, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to < 790093245e35040c2adb15f48970020425aa3f47
- Linux Linux: 5.11
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How to fix
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with
BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to
tunnel xmit functions"), on the path:
udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit()
dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU.
Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can
break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level
detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or
__dev_queue_xmit().
Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths.
In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP:
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec ha iperf3 -s
- without this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver
- with this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f0062c40781fe0a340965f5bb0816681982ff4c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/be3bfcb34bda04f6a350710db471d4133f950f2c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de7db2eb27e82b983157016fa604b1ba664ae5f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/790093245e35040c2adb15f48970020425aa3f47
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cd7e6971fc2787408ceef17906ea152791448cf
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