Bug 2555159 (CVE-2026-98794) - CVE-2026-98794 kernel: ipvs: filter some flags received in the backup server
Summary: CVE-2026-98794 kernel: ipvs: filter some flags received in the backup server
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98794
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:57 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 11:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:57:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipvs: filter some flags received in the backup server

While the IPVS SYNC protocol is not secure by design
we can still protect the backup server from messages that
can wreak havoc.

This commit addresses problems from received connection flags
or their combinations. We now drop messages as follows:

1. the NO_CPORT+TEMPLATE combination allows lookups for normal
connections to hit template which can break in many ways.
While the master does not sync connections with NO_CPORT flag,
i.e. before they are established, we still accept NO_CPORT
without TEMPLATE.

2. ONE_PACKET: it is not sent by master, so we do not
expect it in backup. Before now it was ignored by
IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK for protocol v1 while protocol
v0 created connections that are not hashed and dropped
immediately. Better to apply the IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK
also to the flags from v0 messages for consistency with v1.


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