CVE-2026-52920 (GCVE-0-2026-52920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 07:14 – Updated: 2026-06-28 06:36
VLAI
Title
netfilter: xt_policy: fix strict mode inbound policy matching
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_policy: fix strict mode inbound policy matching match_policy_in() walks sec_path entries from the last transform to the first one, but strict policy matching needs to consume info->pol[] in the same forward order as the rule layout. Derive the strict-match policy position from the number of transforms already consumed so that multi-element inbound rules are matched consistently.
Severity
8.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < eb323f7b82d2e2f638de0cc2a177803eb20e0707 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < fc1c518bb1f054831ecabb32da9b8e1dff9699c6 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < f98b7f85e04b40e28b08c461ded0cc79f14f5509 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < 82664d0f1ba25e4f9a71994954abae24c60f4067 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < b130a6eefa02bd4d475f2f059da8bcfb3e7d18d9 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < 938867e870fb5471bb16f442aeac81326e05bf65 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < 392cc1d8408b5665215c1e9290bbf0f92339b043 (git)
Affected: c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 , < 4b2b4d7d4e203c92db8966b163edfacb1f0e1e29 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.258 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.141 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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