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critical 9.8

CVE-2026-72249 in the critical feed json

netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header

published 2026-08-15 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-17 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-59148

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header

When pushing the IPIP header, the route of the other direction is used to calculate the headroom, use the route in this direction. Accessing the other tuple to set the IP source and destination is fine because this tuple does not provide such information to avoid storing redundant information. However, this tuple already provides the dst for this direction, this went unnoticed because this bug affects headroom and iph->frag_off only at this stage.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 7.1.5, 7.2
  • linux Debian 14 7.1.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72249

  • linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-34.34
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1013.13
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1013.13
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1007.8
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1020.20
  • linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-34.34.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72249

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-72249 updated cvss 7.0

kernel: netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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