netfilter: nft_ct: bail out on template ct in get eval (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-53267
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_ct: bail out on template ct in get eval I noticed this issue while looking at a historic syzbot report [1]. A rule like the one below is enough to trigger the bug: table ip t { chain pre { type filter hook prerouting priority raw; ct zone set 1 ct original saddr 1.2.3.4 accept } } The first expression attaches a per-cpu template ct via nft_ct_set_zone_eval() (nf_ct_tmpl_alloc -> kzalloc, tuple is all zero, nf_ct_l3num(ct) == 0). The next expression then calls nft_ct_get_eval() on the same skb, treats the template as a real ct and hits the 16-byte memcpy path. With dreg at NFT_REG32_15 this overflows past struct nft_regs on the kernel stack; with smaller dreg values it silently clobbers adjacent registers. Reject template ct at the eval entry and in nft_ct_get_fast_eval(), mirroring the check nft_ct_set_eval() already has. Additionally, bound the address copy in NFT_CT_SRC / NFT_CT_DST by priv->len instead of by nf_ct_l3num(ct): nf_ct_get_tuple() zeroes the tuple before pkt_to_tuple() fills in only the protocol-relevant leading bytes, so the trailing bytes of tuple->{src,dst}.u3.all are well-defined zero. priv->len is validated at rule load, so the copy size is now bounded by the destination register rather than by an untrusted field on the conntrack. [1]: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=389cf09cb72926114fce90dc85a2c3231dcb647c

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < 15bf8091f424f97ed8bfd2385f9fca3203f27be2 ; affected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < af80f78ce984649e1698b841cd33f4fa505ad828 ; affected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < 8470f676eadeab99132708acb1a85915664d6115 ; affected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < f071b0bf078146368d18e4eec386bf2ddc0ab7e0 ; affected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < 2e154b5f53f1b0b490c7b8b02499f90feb86b1d5 ; affected 45d9bcda21f4c13be75e3571b0f0ef39e77934b5 < 3027ecbdb5fdf9200251c21d4818e4c447ef78e1
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.1 ; unaffected 0 < 4.1 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.143 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.94 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.36 ≤ 6.18.*

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