netfilter: flowtable: avoid num_encaps underflow on bridge VLAN untag (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80634
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.72 % · percentile 54 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: avoid num_encaps underflow on bridge VLAN untag The DEV_PATH_BR_VLAN_UNTAG case post-decrements info->num_encaps inside WARN_ON_ONCE(). num_encaps is u8, so if it's already 0 the decrement still happens and wraps it to 255. The break only leaves the inner switch -- a later path entry can set info->indev back to a real device, and we end up returning with num_encaps == 255. nft_dev_forward_path() then walks info.encap[] (size 2) up to num_encaps, which means an OOB stack read and a bogus count copied into the route descriptor. Should only happen on a malformed bridge path stack, hence the WARN, but worth handling sanely. Move the decrement out of the WARN. [ While at this, remove the WARN_ON_ONCE since this can only happen with a buggy bridge path stack --pablo ].

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 e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < 9a4e3a9017ba3da2de187b72ed6545641a0d0a84 ; affected e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < 1b52aeb40c9f04bf50eeb4ea09142139d163e239 ; affected e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < ee8440bb000fff4ef8acbfc99652851e9ca0a35b ; affected e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < 547ea9f567498e4accc89e7816264f15a1a0629f ; affected e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < 2f55fa28011c97d6495d5787808db10a8c2d690d ; affected e990cef6516daa4e1e236433579e333f74fd38cb < e052f920773b73be49eb4d8702a9f85de7464363
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.114 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.57 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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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