CVE-2026-31495
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks
Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy
annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects
invalid values early and can generate extack errors.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at
policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE
(14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,
but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when
used as a u32 shift count.
- CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with
CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.
- CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding
a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.
Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to
ctnetlink for the fixes tree.
netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks
Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy
annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects
invalid values early and can generate extack errors.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at
policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE
(14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,
but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when
used as a u32 shift count.
- CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with
CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.
- CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding
a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.
Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to
ctnetlink for the fixes tree.
Vulnerability Details
Published Date
Last Modified
Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
External References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ef71307c86a9f866d6e28f1a0c06e2e9d794474
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/435b576cd2faa75154777868f8cbb73bf71644d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45c33e79ae705b7af97e3117672b6cd258dd0b1b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f7d25f3f0786402ba48ff7d13b6241d77d975f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/675c913b940488a84effdeeac5a1cfb657b59804
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f15b5071b4548b0aafc03b366eb45c9c6566704
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6cb41eaae875501eaaa487b8db6539feb092292
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcec5ce2d73a41668b24e3f18c803541602a59f6
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