CVE-2026-43916
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BaseFortify

Publication date: 2026-05-12

Last updated on: 2026-05-13

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description
pam_authnft is a PAM session module binding nftables firewall rules to authenticated sessions via cgroupv2 inodes. Prior to 0.2.0-alpha, a heap buffer over-read in peer_lookup_tcp (src/peer_lookup.c:134, prior to the fix) allowed a crafted NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG reply to slip past the message-size check, then dereference past the end of the allocation. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.2.0-alpha.
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Published
2026-05-12
Last Modified
2026-05-13
Generated
2026-06-10
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-08
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CWE-125 The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
CWE-191 The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.
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