netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74492
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds mtype_resize() copies comment pointers with memcpy(), not the comment objects themselves. During the window after an entry has been copied but before the table swap and backlog replay, the old table is still published for packet-side updates while the replacement-table entry already holds the same ip_set_comment_rcu pointer. If xt_SET --add-set ... --exist hits that old entry in this window, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() even though packet-side adds carry no comment payload. That call frees the shared comment through the old entry, so the replacement-table entry now holds a stale pointer. When the queued add is replayed on the new table, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() again and strlen() dereferences the stale pointer. Fix this in mtype_add() by skipping ip_set_init_comment() when ext->target marks a packet-side add. Userspace adds still update comments, while packet-side adds can no longer free comment storage shared with a resize copy.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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 f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < 6f13f4d52d06986c18f12e8bffaab944dd27ceab ; affected f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < f9d6cabff1fca010562dcdb0d22b296bdca3ba5a ; affected f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < 16bfa7be2d76ca1e0aacfa363482e1bf8ab5042a ; affected f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < 661ff9c0cfbe07f8eed920dde9f7781491738207 ; affected f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < c710e9bf38e4e71a8db85d26a0f70c0674664207 ; affected f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465 < 4ae701848e4ba9e9713375fb7d82218cbd309da2
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.6 ; unaffected 0 < 5.6 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.151 ≤ 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