{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72248 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72248 is a critical vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72248 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72248 is a critical vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72248 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72248/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72248/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72248","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72248/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72248","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72248","GHSA-mv4h-4h45-g2xr","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72248"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel netfilter","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter flowtable occurs when using IPIP tunnels with direct xmit, causing a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit\n\nThe combination of IPIP tunnel with direct xmit, eg. bridge device,\nbreaks because no dst_entry is provided to check the skb headroom and to\nset the iph-\u003efrag_off field. This leads to invalid dst usage and can\ntrigger a crash in the tunnel transmit path.\n\nFix this by moving dst_cache and dst_cookie out of the runtime union so\nthat they can be shared by neighbour, xfrm, and direct tunnel flows.\nFor FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_DIRECT tuples carrying tunnel metadata, preserve\nroute state in these shared fields and release it through the common\ndst release path.\n\nSince dst_entry is now available to the three supported xmit modes and\ndst_release() already deals with NULL dst, remove the xmit type check\nin nft_flow_dst_release(). Moreover, skip the check if the dst entry\nis NULL in nf_flow_dst_check() which is now the case for the direct\nxmit case.\n\nBased on patch from Rein Wei \u003cn05ec@lzu.edu.cn\u003e.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit","id":"CVE-2026-72248","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header","id":"CVE-2026-72249"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: nf_conncount: fix zone comparison in tuple dedup","id":"CVE-2026-72247"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter flowtable occurs when using IPIP tunnels with direct xmit, causing a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72248/"}