{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72249 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72249 is a critical memory corruption 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-2026-72249 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72249 is a critical memory corruption 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-2026-72249 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-2026-72249/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72249/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72249","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72249/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72249","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72249","GHSA-3xpj-q99r-5475","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72249"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A Linux kernel netfilter flowtable bug causes incorrect headroom calculation when pushing IPIP headers, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header\n\nWhen pushing the IPIP header, the route of the other direction is used\nto calculate the headroom, use the route in this direction. Accessing\nthe other tuple to set the IP source and destination is fine because\nthis tuple does not provide such information to avoid storing redundant\ninformation. However, this tuple already provides the dst for this\ndirection, this went unnoticed because this bug affects headroom and\niph-\u003efrag_off only at this stage.","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: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header","id":"CVE-2026-72249","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag","id":"CVE-2026-72250"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit","id":"CVE-2026-72248"},"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 Linux kernel netfilter flowtable bug causes incorrect headroom calculation when pushing IPIP headers, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72249/"}