Bug 2492740 (CVE-2026-53220) - CVE-2026-53220 kernel: netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
Summary: CVE-2026-53220 kernel: netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53220
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
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 22:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:03:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: revalidate bridge ports

ebt_redirect_tg() dereferences br_port_get_rcu() return without a
NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been
removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE
reinject.

A mere NULL check isn't sufficient, however.  As sashiko review
points out userspace can not only remove the port from the bridge,
it could also place the device in a different virtual device, e.g.
macvlan.

If this happens, we must drop the packet, there is no way for us to
reinject it into the bridge path.

Switch to _upper API, we don't need the bridge port structure.
Also, this fix keeps another bug intact:

Both nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue use CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER
too aggressive, which prevents certain logging features when queueing
in bridge family: NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE can be enabled while the old
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER cruft is off.

Fixes tag is a common ancestor, this was always broken.


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