netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31407
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink. These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation. Extend the netlink policies accordingly. Quoting the reporter: nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is within the valid range. [..] and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a 320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by UBSAN.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < e7b5766693477c52424cc6c79dd30a7a9c7db52c ; affected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < 78bba9f73942aa7dca47d817d8cec0fb9b443b70 ; affected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < be88a337bf07afb1ee173f1099294d1b7ab3fefe ; affected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < c5e918390002edf0cff80a0e7ce1f86f16a9507c ; affected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < 9174d28f3f15d8c4962f5980c0be167633880443 ; affected a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 < 67c53c1978cef3c504237275e39c857e2f6af56e
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.27 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.27 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD