Bug 2555143 (CVE-2026-98793) - CVE-2026-98793 kernel: netfilter: bpf: reject invalid NAT manipulation types
Summary: CVE-2026-98793 kernel: netfilter: bpf: reject invalid NAT manipulation types
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98793
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:56 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 11:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:56:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: bpf: reject invalid NAT manipulation types

As bpf_ct_set_nat_info() is not validating the NAT manipulation type a
wrong value can be passed directly to nf_nat_setup_info(). This triggers
the WARN_ON() at nf_nat_setup_info() and if panic_on_warn isn't set,
then IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE is set without adding nat_bysource and conntrack
cleanup tries to unlink an uninitialized hlist node.

Fix this by checking that NAT manipulation type is correct before
calling nf_nat_setup_info(). In addition, if the WARN_ON is hit, return
NF_DROP instead of continuing with the processing to avoid similar
situations in the future.


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