CVE-2026-53238

netlabel: validate unlabeled address and mask attribute lengths

published June 25, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

netlabel: validate unlabeled address and mask attribute lengths

netlbl_unlabel_addrinfo_get() used the address attribute length to

determine whether the attribute data could be read as an IPv4 or IPv6

address, but did not independently validate the corresponding mask

attribute length. A crafted Generic Netlink request could therefore

provide a valid IPv4/IPv6 address attribute with a shorter mask

attribute, which would later be read as a full struct in_addr or

struct in6_addr.

NLA_BINARY policy lengths are maximum lengths by default, so use

NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() for the unlabeled IPv4/IPv6 address and mask

attributes. This rejects short attributes during policy validation and

also exposes the exact length requirements through policy introspection.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00123 · 1.9th percentile
Published
2026-06-25T08:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 08:39Z
    netlabel: validate unlabeled address and mask attribute lengths
    cvelistv5