CVE-2025-21826
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: reject mismatching sum of field_len with set key length The field length description provides the length of each separated key field in the concatenation, each field gets rounded up to 32-bits to calculate the pipapo rule width from pipapo_init(). The set key length provides the total size of the key aligned to 32-bits. Register-based arithmetics still allows for combining mismatching set key length and field length description, eg. set key length 10 and field description [ 5, 4 ] leading to pipapo width of 12.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | 5.10.235 |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | kernel-doc-5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.12.13-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 6.12.13-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.12.13-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 5.10.237-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 6.1.129-1 |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20518
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9335a8000fb70742f7db10af314104b6ace220
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac254343d3cf228ae0738b2615fedf85d000752
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49b7182b97bafbd5645414aff054b4a65d05823d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5083a7ae45003456c253e981b30a43f71230b4a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b467c8feac759f4c5c86d708beca2aa2b29584f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82e491e085719068179ff6a5466b7387cc4bbf32
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab50d0eff4a939d20c37721fd9766347efcdb6f6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-503939.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21826.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:20518
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-21826
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2298169
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2312077
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2313092
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2320172
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2320259
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2320455
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2320616
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2320722
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2324549
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2327203
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.