CVE-2026-53266 PUBLISHED

netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable

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: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable

The ebtables SNAT target keeps the Ethernet source address rewrite behind skb_ensure_writable(skb, 0). This is intentional: at the bridge ebtables hooks the Ethernet header is addressed through skb_mac_header()/eth_hdr(), while skb->data points at the Ethernet payload. Asking skb_ensure_writable() for ETH_HLEN bytes would check the payload, not the Ethernet header, and would reintroduce the small packet regression fixed by commit 63137bc5882a.

However, the optional ARP sender hardware address rewrite is different. It writes through skb_store_bits() at an offset relative to skb->data:

<pre> skb_store_bits(skb, sizeof(struct arphdr), info->mac, ETH_ALEN) </pre>

skb_header_pointer() only safely reads the ARP header; it does not make the later sender hardware address range writable. If that range is still held in a nonlinear skb fragment backed by a splice-imported file page, skb_store_bits() maps the frag page and copies the new MAC address directly into it.

Ensure the ARP SHA range is writable before reading the ARP header and before calling skb_store_bits().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to bf84ad7c7a9ede46e31afaa41a1ba06a159e8c87 (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to 76280b78cc9f23bdc6438e10ad6dff148ef8375b (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to b7e91939ba9be805a62a257fa4e227dffbb88fa0 (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to afd64b59c3de9bbbdd3759e834fdc55cda716e0b (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to 153ea96c806aea395daba907a4f88480b6ad5093 (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to b18675263db1147c8e1cab625400c13a0d87bd2d (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to c9b5ff59feffb92a147a84a5aa28acd2cb8ff4c5 (excl.)
  • affected from 63137bc5882a1882c553d389fdeeeace86ee1741 to 67ba971ae02514d85818fe0c32549ab4bfa3bf49 (excl.)
  • Version 2f3839075a5f8dcf116c1abe35b36b018ac62445 is affected
  • Version 51ba2945a8ef65ae437c8f9ba05f0343aa82ae5b is affected
  • Version b7d23c2c87584eb429f115c078ed511be8b18e29 is affected
  • affected from 5.4.73 to 5.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.8.17 to 5.9 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.9.2 to 5.10 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.259 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.210 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.176 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • 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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