netfilter: nf_nat_sip: reload possible stale data pointer (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72251
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.71 % · percentile 54 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_nat_sip: reload possible stale data pointer quoting sashiko: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [..] noticed a potential memory bug and header corruption involving the SIP NAT helper. In net/netfilter/nf_nat_sip.c:nf_nat_sip(): if (skb_ensure_writable(skb, skb->len)) { nf_ct_helper_log(skb, ct, "cannot mangle packet"); return NF_DROP; } uh = (void *)skb->data + protoff; uh->dest = ct_sip_info->forced_dport; if (!nf_nat_mangle_udp_packet(skb, ct, ctinfo, protoff, 0, 0, NULL, 0)) { If a cloned or fragmented SKB is reallocated by skb_ensure_writable(), the old data buffer is freed. However, nf_nat_sip() fails to update *dptr to point to the new buffer. It also appears to use nf_nat_mangle_udp_packet() on what could be a TCP packet, which would overwrite the sequence number with a checksum update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nf_conntrack_sip linerizes skbs, hence no fragmented skb can be seen. But clones are possible, so rebuild dptr. Disable nf_nat_mangle_udp_packet() branch for TCP streams. It doesn't look like this can ever happen, else we should have received bug reports about this, so just check the conntrack is UDP and drop otherwise. The calling conntrack_sip set ->forced_dport for SIP_HDR_VIA_UDP messages, so I don't think this is ever expected to be true for a TCP stream.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < bded21a4bf9bf86a79148be735723a97ca9a7532 ; affected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < dc11f26685aa850f237226f0f463647aea58ab7c ; affected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < e38143c9b477f2968024c47c647dd4456a40aff1 ; affected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < 57e4e29644ec054d7021d296407e7ddd844afea2 ; affected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < eae9c6ccb5af69c713a65f8ae219f5c1aa32cd17 ; affected 7266507d89991fa1e989283e4e032c6d9357fe26 < 2bcf2c5052fb5e73e255140ab43f056aef409c27
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.9 ; unaffected 0 < 3.9 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 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