CVE-2026-31424 (GCVE-0-2026-31424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 13:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:08
VLAI
Title
netfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP
Weiming Shi says:
xt_match and xt_target structs registered with NFPROTO_UNSPEC can be
loaded by any protocol family through nft_compat. When such a
match/target sets .hooks to restrict which hooks it may run on, the
bitmask uses NF_INET_* constants. This is only correct for families
whose hook layout matches NF_INET_*: IPv4, IPv6, INET, and bridge
all share the same five hooks (PRE_ROUTING ... POST_ROUTING).
ARP only has three hooks (IN=0, OUT=1, FORWARD=2) with different
semantics. Because NF_ARP_OUT == 1 == NF_INET_LOCAL_IN, the .hooks
validation silently passes for the wrong reasons, allowing matches to
run on ARP chains where the hook assumptions (e.g. state->in being
set on input hooks) do not hold. This leads to NULL pointer
dereferences; xt_devgroup is one concrete example:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000044: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000220-0x0000000000000227]
RIP: 0010:devgroup_mt+0xff/0x350
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nft_match_eval (net/netfilter/nft_compat.c:407)
nft_do_chain (net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285)
nft_do_chain_arp (net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:61)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)
arp_xmit (net/ipv4/arp.c:666)
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fix it by restricting arptables to NFPROTO_ARP extensions only.
Note that arptables-legacy only supports:
- arpt_CLASSIFY
- arpt_mangle
- arpt_MARK
that provide explicit NFPROTO_ARP match/target declarations.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < 80e3c75f71c3ea1e62fcb032382de13e00a68f8b
(git)
Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < d9a0af9e43416aa50c0595e15fa01365a1c72c49 (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < 1cd6313c8644bfebbd813a05da9daa21b09dd68c (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < f00ac65c90ea475719e08d629e2e26c8b4e6999b (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < e7e1b6bcb389c8708003d40613a59ff2496f6b1f (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < dc3e27dd7d76e21106b8f9bbdc31f5da74a89014 (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < 3e79374b03bf9a2f282f0eb1d0ac3776f7e0f28a (git) Affected: 9291747f118d6404e509747b85ff5f6dfec368d2 , < 3d5d488f11776738deab9da336038add95d342d1 (git) |
|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.39
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.39 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.168 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.134 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.81 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
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