netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31495
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects invalid values early and can generate extack errors. - CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check. - CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE (14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value, but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when used as a u32 shift count. - CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks. - CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags. Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to ctnetlink for the fixes tree.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < 435b576cd2faa75154777868f8cbb73bf71644d3 ; affected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < 2ef71307c86a9f866d6e28f1a0c06e2e9d794474 ; affected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < 4f7d25f3f0786402ba48ff7d13b6241d77d975f5 ; affected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < fcec5ce2d73a41668b24e3f18c803541602a59f6 ; affected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < 675c913b940488a84effdeeac5a1cfb657b59804 ; affected c8e2078cfe414a99cf6f2f2f1d78c7e75392e9d4 < c6cb41eaae875501eaaa487b8db6539feb092292
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.22 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.22 ; unaffected 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.168 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.131 ≤ 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