CVE-2026-53220 PUBLISHED

netfilter: revalidate bridge ports

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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

netfilter: revalidate bridge ports

ebt_redirect_tg() dereferences br_port_get_rcu() return without a NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE reinject.

A mere NULL check isn't sufficient, however. As sashiko review points out userspace can not only remove the port from the bridge, it could also place the device in a different virtual device, e.g. macvlan.

If this happens, we must drop the packet, there is no way for us to reinject it into the bridge path.

Switch to _upper API, we don't need the bridge port structure. Also, this fix keeps another bug intact:

Both nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue use CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER too aggressive, which prevents certain logging features when queueing in bridge family: NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE can be enabled while the old CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER cruft is off.

Fixes tag is a common ancestor, this was always broken.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f350a0a87374418635689471606454abc7beaa3a to 43330a1e8aace6b5a8de9aba127e9e394ab49b0f (excl.)
  • affected from f350a0a87374418635689471606454abc7beaa3a to 4beffcd726e2a731cea4dc18e1fbc55c8d76f1a0 (excl.)
  • affected from f350a0a87374418635689471606454abc7beaa3a to d4b1301fd3c9e5e105fd3767c68bc4ba558bb228 (excl.)
  • affected from f350a0a87374418635689471606454abc7beaa3a to ccb9fd4b87538ccf19ccff78ee26700526d94867 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.36 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.36 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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