CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98794
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipvs: filter some flags received in the backup server
While the IPVS SYNC protocol is not secure by design
we can still protect the backup server from messages that
can wreak havoc.
This commit addresses problems from received connection flags
or their combinations. We now drop messages as follows:
1. the NO_CPORT+TEMPLATE combination allows lookups for normal
connections to hit template which can break in many ways.
While the master does not sync connections with NO_CPORT flag,
i.e. before they are established, we still accept NO_CPORT
without TEMPLATE.
2. ONE_PACKET: it is not sent by master, so we do not
expect it in backup. Before now it was ignored by
IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK for protocol v1 while protocol
v0 created connections that are not hashed and dropped
immediately. Better to apply the IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK
also to the flags from v0 messages for consistency with v1.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a93111835ccfea7d969ec73588e33745fd9834 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55d033324f67a15ff56be6d38d6e87f644e0ed62 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d33c9efa9d1a2f244a1a64ec9b540b0f8975a0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4cd1db7d421e82945713a36084bb0c35b75b27e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f96e91748f6304668fe647e686d199d7207d36f1 git.kernel.org