CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72252
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: don't leak bad clone into future transaction
On memory allocation failure the cloned nft_pipapo_match can enter a bad
state:
- some fields can have their lookup tables resized while others did
not
- bits might have been toggled
- scratch map can be undersized which also means m->bsize_max can be
lower than what is required
This means that the next insertion in the same batch can trigger
out-of-bounds writes.
Furthermore, a failure in the first can result in the bad clone to
leak into the next transaction because the abort callback is never
executed in this case (the upper layer saw an error and no attempt to
allocate a transactional request was made).
Record a state for the nft_pipapo_match structure:
- NEW (pristine clone)
- MOD (modified clone with good state)
- ERR (potentially bogus content)
Then make it so that deletes and insertions fail when the clone
entered ERR state.
In case the very first insert attempt results in an error, free the
clone right away.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02b6b0e892aea582590671796fd6eff5b93ea93f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047e813324eac2ac60cddfb58bcdbd0144eadb09 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ab7b1802f63ca5b288ea59acb467830b83abd6b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47e65eff50691f0a5b79d325e28d83ec1da43bcf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610e3b73efaec3dd81a95dcda2421ad7d9795bd0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc53703f48558896295f565cd4f5e956d21b7af4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e74f9680e1b64872a51cc7b5bda1edaaa08aa51f git.kernel.org