CVE-2026-89776

vxlan: vnifilter: enforce exact length of GROUP/GROUP6 attributes

N/A
Published: September 16, 2026 at 08:48 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: vnifilter: enforce exact length of GROUP/GROUP6 attributes The VXLAN VNI filter entry policy declares the GROUP/GROUP6 address attributes as NLA_BINARY with only a maximum length, so validate_nla() accepts a payload shorter than the address. The GROUP consumer reads it with nla_get_in_addr(), an unconditional 4-byte load, so a short attribute over-reads up to 3 bytes of uninitialised slab data, which are stored into remote_ip and echoed back via RTM_GETTUNNEL, disclosing kernel memory. Switch both entries to NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() so the validator rejects any GROUP/GROUP6 that is not exactly 4 / 16 bytes; a valid address is always sent at full width.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.18f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9
Vendor states this is fixed in 47bfcc871576eaef6c8edab6749acd4b317306ea (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 984f831dda31b3a18f47454cf64989f65402879e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a9ec10815199f9879ba080241dc555efb1daf324 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ad32e564c62ebf5ba76dd60a22af52c69d54d17b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in daebc7064a1b4c12c98e52c4bceede7f2fcd573c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e12c4663529699f457b2988c1dfedf4d13b3b3be (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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