Bug 2516255 (CVE-2026-72248) - CVE-2026-72248 kernel: netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit
Summary: CVE-2026-72248 kernel: netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72248
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 13:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:02:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit

The combination of IPIP tunnel with direct xmit, eg. bridge device,
breaks because no dst_entry is provided to check the skb headroom and to
set the iph->frag_off field. This leads to invalid dst usage and can
trigger a crash in the tunnel transmit path.

Fix this by moving dst_cache and dst_cookie out of the runtime union so
that they can be shared by neighbour, xfrm, and direct tunnel flows.
For FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_DIRECT tuples carrying tunnel metadata, preserve
route state in these shared fields and release it through the common
dst release path.

Since dst_entry is now available to the three supported xmit modes and
dst_release() already deals with NULL dst, remove the xmit type check
in nft_flow_dst_release(). Moreover, skip the check if the dst entry
is NULL in nf_flow_dst_check() which is now the case for the direct
xmit case.

Based on patch from Rein Wei <n05ec.cn>.


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