CVE-2026-72423
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-72423, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-08-15
Last updated on: 2026-08-15
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Guard conntrack opts error writes
The conntrack lookup and allocation kfuncs take an opts pointer
together with an opts__sz argument. The verifier checks only the memory
range described by opts__sz, but the wrappers unconditionally write
opts->error whenever the internal lookup or allocation helper returns an
error.
For an invalid size smaller than the end of opts->error, that write can
land outside the verifier-checked range. Keep returning NULL for invalid
arguments, but only report the error through opts->error when the
supplied size includes the field.
This preserves error reporting for the supported 12-byte and 16-byte
layouts, and for other invalid sizes that still include opts->error.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
