CVE-2026-72416 (GCVE-0-2026-72416)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:43
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Title
netfilter: nft_compat: ebtables emulation must reject non-bridge targets
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_compat: ebtables emulation must reject non-bridge targets xtables targets return netfilter verdicts: NF_ACCEPT, NF_DROP, and so on. ebtables targets return incompatible verdicts: EBT_ACCEPT, EBT_DROP, ... We cannot allow fallback to NFPROTO_UNSPEC. ebtables doesn't permit this since 11ff7288beb2 ("netfilter: ebtables: reject non-bridge targets") but that commit missed the nft_compat layer.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0ca743a5599199152a31a7146b83213c786c2eb2 , < efc17b9240d821c424bc5191a5c6e9384a06293e (git)
Affected: 0ca743a5599199152a31a7146b83213c786c2eb2 , < b3f7a84540a0d014ec42343ff5909657c1bd1994 (git)
Affected: 0ca743a5599199152a31a7146b83213c786c2eb2 , < 33e1875d6b5b552a2e5652b40074c604199354ee (git)
Affected: 0ca743a5599199152a31a7146b83213c786c2eb2 , < c129b0185e707dce405968e21afccd5728b2ce63 (git)
Affected: 0ca743a5599199152a31a7146b83213c786c2eb2 , < 9dbba7e694ec045f21ede2f892fb42b81b4e1692 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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