CVE-2026-72416 in Linuxinfo

Zusammenfassung

von MITRE • 15.08.2026

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.

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Zuständig

Linux

Reservieren

09.08.2026

Veröffentlichung

15.08.2026

Moderieren

akzeptiert

Eintrag

VDB-390952

CPE

bereit

EPSS

0.00209

KEV

nein

Aktivitäten

very low

Quellen

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