CVE-2025-21826

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.

  • Published Mar 6, 2025
  • CVSS 5.5 medium
  • 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

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CVE-2025-21826 at the National Vulnerability Database