---
id: CVE-2026-64411
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_ta…
summary: |-
  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_ta…
severity: high
cvss: 7.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-125
vendor: linux
product: linux_kernel
affected:
  - 'linux_kernel >= 2.6.12.1, < 5.10.261'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.212'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.178'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.145'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.96'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.39'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 7.1.4'
  - linux_kernel = 2.6.12
  - linux_kernel = 7.2
patched:
  - linux_kernel 7.1.4
published: '2026-07-25'
updated: '2026-09-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-08T09:18:18.777'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64411'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2664f537ca5bcb2ef3fac2683dcca602e51fad24'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c046ca4e35a83ea32f6e748f54139f5fe2a1d01'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe8d3cecd20bfaaaf440db3a06ba674d2f2e322'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7436da6c1bc44654b7f11a17e746f6999fd37250'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a622d2e9608c9dff47fc2e5759ac7aa3a836b45d'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab63ccefb9c71627f957a0724c2b9ebc869c6f20'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6183b1b88a722b6d8ea0cecc99eba168a15e0be'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6f539311e58e76aa96feef0f1572b13a564f8a2'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html'
    label: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00169
epssPercentile: 0.05505
ingestedAt: '2026-09-08T15:33:26.949Z'
---

## Overview

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 NUL-terminating it. On a
lookup miss, find_inlist_lock() calls try_then_request_module(..., "%s%s",
"ebtable_", name), and vsnprintf() reads past the name field and the
stack object until it hits a zero byte.

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880119dfb20 by task exploit/147
  Call Trace:
  ...
   string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
   vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945)
   __request_module (kernel/module/kmod.c:150)
   do_update_counters.isra.0 (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:371 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:380)
   update_counters (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1440)
   do_ebt_set_ctl (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:2573)
   nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101)
   ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1424)
   raw_setsockopt (net/ipv4/raw.c:847)
   __sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2393)
  ...

compat_do_replace() shares the same unterminated name via
compat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(); terminate it there too so all
find_table_lock() callers behave alike. The other callers already
terminate the name after the copy.

## Affected

- `linux_kernel >= 2.6.12.1, < 5.10.261`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.212`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.178`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.145`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.96`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.39`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 7.1.4`
- `linux_kernel = 2.6.12`
- `linux_kernel = 7.2`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `linux_kernel 7.1.4`
