macvlan: fix macvlan_get_size() not reserving space for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-53013
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: fix macvlan_get_size() not reserving space for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF macvlan_get_size() does not account for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF, but macvlan_fill_info() conditionally includes it when port->bc_cutoff != 1. This causes nla_put_s32() to fail with -EMSGSIZE when the netlink skb runs out of space, triggering a WARN_ON in rtnetlink and preventing the interface from being dumped. The bug can be reproduced with: ip link add macvlan0 link eth0 type macvlan mode bridge ip link set macvlan0 type macvlan bc_cutoff 0 ip -d link show macvlan0 # fails with -EMSGSIZE The bc_cutoff feature was added in commit 954d1fa1ac93 ("macvlan: Add netlink attribute for broadcast cutoff"), which added the nla_put_s32() call in macvlan_fill_info() but missed adding the corresponding nla_total_size(4) in macvlan_get_size(). A follow-up commit 55cef78c244d ("macvlan: add forgotten nla_policy for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF") fixed the missing nla_policy entry but still did not fix the size calculation.

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 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 < 4979252758387b338ca968ba7e0515b0ae2257e3 ; affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 < 77ecfa4e27f282d224215895ddfbeb916fc75e24 ; affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 < b6b7154e9f5d75b608ceb2d05b376de8c638c40e ; affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 < 1c004f14ccdc11585625c168bb9a7c5e1b8afb0c ; affected 954d1fa1ac93aa8a66f7d9a9ba545cf7f020d348 < fa92a77b0ed4d5f11a71665a232ac5a54a4b055d
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.4 ; unaffected 0 < 6.4 ; unaffected 6.6.141 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.91 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.33 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.10 ≤ 7.0.*

Sources

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