In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: don't leak bad clone into future transact…
CVE-2026-72252 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2026-72252?
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.6
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: don't leak bad clone into future transaction
On memory allocation failure the cloned nft_pipapo_match can enter a bad
state:
- some fields can have their lookup tables resized while others did
not
- bits might have been toggled
- scratch map can be undersized which also means m->bsize_max can be
lower than what is required
This means that the next insertion in the same batch can trigger
out-of-bounds writes.
Furthermore, a failure in the first can result in the bad clone to
leak into the next transaction because the abort callback is never
executed in this case (the upper layer saw an error and no attempt to
allocate a transactional request was made).
Record a state for the nft_pipapo_match structure:
- NEW (pristine clone)
- MOD (modified clone with good state)
- ERR (potentially bogus content)
Then make it so that deletes and insertions fail when the clone
entered ERR state.
In case the very first insert attempt results in an error, free the
clone right away.
Check your whole app
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/02b6b0e892aea582590671796fd6eff5b93ea93f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/047e813324eac2ac60cddfb58bcdbd0144eadb09
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ab7b1802f63ca5b288ea59acb467830b83abd6b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47e65eff50691f0a5b79d325e28d83ec1da43bcf
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/610e3b73efaec3dd81a95dcda2421ad7d9795bd0
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc53703f48558896295f565cd4f5e956d21b7af4
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e74f9680e1b64872a51cc7b5bda1edaaa08aa51f
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON