Bug 2516854 (CVE-2026-74290) - CVE-2026-74290 kernel: net/sched: cls_flow: Dont expose folded kernel pointers
Summary: CVE-2026-74290 kernel: net/sched: cls_flow: Dont expose folded kernel pointers
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74290
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-20 14:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:36:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: cls_flow: Dont expose folded kernel pointers

The flow classifier falls back to addr_fold() for fields that are missing
from packet headers. In map mode, userspace controls mask, xor, rshift,
addend and divisor, and can observe the resulting classid through class
statistics. This allows a tc classifier in a user/network namespace to
recover the 32-bit folded value of skb->sk, skb_dst() or skb_nfct().

Align with standard kernel practices for pointer hashing and replace the
XOR folding with a keyed siphash (which is cryptographically secure)


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