{"id":"CVE-2026-64411","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-64411","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:41:22.135Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: terminate table name before find_table_lock() update_counters() and compat_update_counters() forward a user-supplied 32-byte table name to find_table_lock() without…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ebtables: terminate table name before find_table_lock()\n\nupdate_counters() and compat_update_counters() forward a user-supplied\n32-byte table name to find_table_lock() without NUL-terminating it. On a\nlookup miss, find_inlist_lock() calls try_then_request_module(..., \"%s%s\",\n\"ebtable_\", name), and vsnprintf() reads past the name field and the\nstack object until it hits a zero byte.\n\n  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)\n  Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880119dfb20 by task exploit/147\n  Call Trace:\n  ...\n   string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)\n   vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945)\n   __request_module (kernel/module/kmod.c:150)\n   do_update_counters.isra.0 (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:371 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:380)\n   update_counters (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1440)\n   do_ebt_set_ctl (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:2573)\n   nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101)\n   ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1424)\n   raw_setsockopt (net/ipv4/raw.c:847)\n   __sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2393)\n  ...\n\ncompat_do_replace() shares the same unterminated name via\ncompat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(); terminate it there too so all\nfind_table_lock() callers behave alike. The other callers already\nterminate the name after the copy.","published":"2026-07-25T10:17:25.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:17:36.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00132,"percentile":0.02737,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2664f537ca5bcb2ef3fac2683dcca602e51fad24","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c046ca4e35a83ea32f6e748f54139f5fe2a1d01","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe8d3cecd20bfaaaf440db3a06ba674d2f2e322","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7436da6c1bc44654b7f11a17e746f6999fd37250","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a622d2e9608c9dff47fc2e5759ac7aa3a836b45d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab63ccefb9c71627f957a0724c2b9ebc869c6f20","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6183b1b88a722b6d8ea0cecc99eba168a15e0be","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6f539311e58e76aa96feef0f1572b13a564f8a2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64411","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}