CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72423
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Guard conntrack opts error writes
The conntrack lookup and allocation kfuncs take an opts pointer
together with an opts__sz argument. The verifier checks only the memory
range described by opts__sz, but the wrappers unconditionally write
opts->error whenever the internal lookup or allocation helper returns an
error.
For an invalid size smaller than the end of opts->error, that write can
land outside the verifier-checked range. Keep returning NULL for invalid
arguments, but only report the error through opts->error when the
supplied size includes the field.
This preserves error reporting for the supported 12-byte and 16-byte
layouts, and for other invalid sizes that still include opts->error.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/453f4f1e90de55b6bc297936031b68bef93f2e28 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63d95c6bbd6fc0e411404188306a1fea456300b0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/669bc3b345712112d3f033a1953f5a10b15e7c65 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f6183a39533d727deaa5061cadae6dd9e6744d0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd74c80203842a21b2ebb9f70d1260d9aa20fa05 git.kernel.org