CVE-2026-31407

HIGH

netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink. These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation. Extend the netlink policies accordingly. Quoting the reporter: nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is within the valid range. [..] and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a 320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by UBSAN.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.27
Linux/Linux 2.6.27
Linux/Linux 6.12.83 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.24 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.10 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.136 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7.0-rc5
Linux/Linux a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 - 0fbae1e74493d5a160a70c51aeba035d8266ea7d
Linux/Linux a258860e01b80e8f554a4ab1a6c95e6042eb8b73 - 67c53c1978cef3c504237275e39c857e2f6af56e
... and 5 more
Published Apr 06, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 06, 2026