Bug 2517052 (CVE-2026-74569)

Summary: CVE-2026-74569 kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: widen NAT rewrite delta to s32 in sip_help_tcp()
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) connection tracking module (nf_conntrack_sip). A remote attacker could send specially crafted SIP messages that cause an integer overflow during Network Address Translation (NAT) rewrite delta calculations. This overflow leads to a use-after-free vulnerability, which can result in memory corruption and potentially a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:47:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: widen NAT rewrite delta to s32 in sip_help_tcp()

sip_help_tcp() stores the size change of each NAT-rewritten SIP message
in s16 diff and accumulates it in s16 tdiff, but a single message can
grow by more than S16_MAX while the packet stays under the 65535
enlarge_skb() limit: nf_nat_sip() rewrites every matching URI, and a long
Contact list expands the message by tens of kilobytes. diff then wraps,
and "datalen = datalen + diff - msglen" yields a huge unsigned datalen,
so the next iteration's ct_sip_get_header() reads past the linearized skb
tail.

Widen diff, tdiff and the seq_adjust hook to s32. Both are bounded by the
65535 byte packet limit, and the seqadj core is already s32
(nf_ct_seqadj_set() takes s32), so no previously accepted input is
rejected.

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ct_sip_get_header (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:464)
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888010800000 by task ksoftirqd/1/25
   ct_sip_get_header (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:464)
   sip_help_tcp (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:1694)
   nf_confirm (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:183)
   nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
   ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246)
   ip6_forward (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:690)
   ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6212)
   process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6676)
   __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7735)
   net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7955)
   handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
   run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1076)
   ...

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-08-19 17:11:28 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081554-CVE-2026-74569-45bc@gregkh/T