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CVE-2026-98969 (GCVE-0-2026-98969)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:19 – Updated: 2026-10-23 12:19

Title

net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload This is a follow-up to commit 9c572a83037a ("net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump()"), which zero-initialised the dump-side struct. Sashiko pointed at a pre-existing bug that exposed the change-side input-validation gap open. em_text_change() casts the raw netlink attribute payload to struct tcf_em_text and passes conf->algo, a 16-byte array with no enforced NUL terminator, to textsearch_prepare(). On the TS_AUTOLOAD retry textsearch_prepare() calls request_module("ts_%s", algo); vsnprintf() walks %s until it finds a NUL, so an algo[] with no NUL reads past the array into the adjacent struct fields and payload and feeds those bytes to the usermode helper command line. This is an out-of-bounds read and a kernel memory disclosure. Reject the attribute when no NUL exists within TC_EM_TEXT_ALGOSIZ bytes, matching the check xt_string has had since 3ab720881b6e. Conditions to recreate the bug: - CAP_NET_ADMIN on the target netns (namespace-local via unshare -Urn is enough) - install clsact on an interface, then add a basic filter with one text ematch whose algo[] is 16 bytes with no NUL (e.g. "A"*16) and pattern_len at least 1 - the add fails with -ENOENT and the kernel invokes modprobe with a module name made of "ts_" plus the 16 bytes and the adjacent payload

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00bcc303000bac524…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22182f91c6703af6e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85e5512369d4fe6e5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b627c6ba20be20334…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9728fcf2e7fb4a7a…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534 , < 00bcc303000bac524d62eed054d77372b38ace0f (git) Affected: d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534 , < 22182f91c6703af6e9832cffe6d22b381031cb5a (git) Affected: d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534 , < 85e5512369d4fe6e5f2c43712d9f9e01d4ae8437 (git) Affected: d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534 , < b627c6ba20be20334338229b4820baacb9d96826 (git) Affected: d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534 , < c9728fcf2e7fb4a7a8d08ebd9524c3b02ae1a021 (git)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.13 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.57 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.11 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-98969

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-23 13:17 - Updated: 2026-10-23 13:17

Severity

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b627c6ba20be20334338229b4820baacb9d96826
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9728fcf2e7fb4a7a8d08ebd9524c3b02ae1a021

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-G75R-RWJF-JP26

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-23 15:31 – Updated: 2026-10-23 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload

This is a follow-up to commit 9c572a83037a ("net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump()"), which zero-initialised the dump-side struct. Sashiko pointed at a pre-existing bug that exposed the change-side input-validation gap open.

em_text_change() casts the raw netlink attribute payload to struct tcf_em_text and passes conf->algo, a 16-byte array with no enforced NUL terminator, to textsearch_prepare(). On the TS_AUTOLOAD retry textsearch_prepare() calls request_module("ts_%s", algo); vsnprintf() walks %s until it finds a NUL, so an algo[] with no NUL reads past the array into the adjacent struct fields and payload and feeds those bytes to the usermode helper command line. This is an out-of-bounds read and a kernel memory disclosure.

Reject the attribute when no NUL exists within TC_EM_TEXT_ALGOSIZ bytes, matching the check xt_string has had since 3ab720881b6e.

Conditions to recreate the bug: - CAP_NET_ADMIN on the target netns (namespace-local via unshare -Urn is enough) - install clsact on an interface, then add a basic filter with one text ematch whose algo[] is 16 bytes with no NUL (e.g. "A"*16) and pattern_len at least 1 - the add fails with -ENOENT and the kernel invokes modprobe with a module name made of "ts_" plus the 16 bytes and the adjacent payload

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