CVE-2026-31420

MEDIUM

bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic br_mrp_start_test() and br_mrp_start_in_test() accept the user-supplied interval value from netlink without validation. When interval is 0, usecs_to_jiffies(0) yields 0, causing the delayed work (br_mrp_test_work_expired / br_mrp_in_test_work_expired) to reschedule itself with zero delay. This creates a tight loop on system_percpu_wq that allocates and transmits MRP test frames at maximum rate, exhausting all system memory and causing a kernel panic via OOM deadlock. The same zero-interval issue applies to br_mrp_start_in_test_parse() for interconnect test frames. Use NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, 1) in the nla_policy tables for both IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_TEST_INTERVAL and IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_IN_TEST_INTERVAL, so zero is rejected at the netlink attribute parsing layer before the value ever reaches the workqueue scheduling code. This is consistent with how other bridge subsystems (br_fdb, br_mst) enforce range constraints on netlink attributes.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 3.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.8
Linux/Linux 20f6a05ef63594feb0c6dfbd629da0448b43124d - c9bc352f716d1bebfe43354bce539ec2d0223b30
Linux/Linux 20f6a05ef63594feb0c6dfbd629da0448b43124d - fa6e24963342de4370e3a3c9af41e38277b74cf3
Linux/Linux 5.8
Linux/Linux 6.19.12 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
linux/linux_kernel 7.0 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.8 - 6.19.12
Published Apr 13, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 13, 2026