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Linux Linux — netfilter: br_netfilter: do not check confirmed bit in br_nf_local_in() after confirm
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0030 22.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 7c3f28599652acf431a2211168de4a583f30b6d5 – —
Linux 6.8 – 5.15.192
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Oct 1 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-39894 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: br_netfilter: do not check confirmed bit in br_nf_local_in() after confirm
When send a broadcast packet to a tap device, which was added to a bridge,
br_nf_local_in() is called to confirm the conntrack. If another conntrack
with the same hash value is added to the hash table, which can be
triggered by a normal packet to a non-bridge device, the below warning
may happen.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:632 br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 96 Comm: tap_send Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-dirty #44 PREEMPT(voluntary)
RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xf0
br_pass_frame_up+0x103/0x180
br_handle_frame_finish+0x2de/0x5b0
br_nf_hook_thresh+0xc0/0x120
br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x168/0x3a0
br_nf_pre_routing+0x237/0x5e0
br_handle_frame+0x1ec/0x3c0
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x225/0x1210
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x37/0xa0
netif_receive_skb+0x36/0x160
tun_get_user+0xa54/0x10c0
tun_chr_write_iter+0x65/0xb0
vfs_write+0x305/0x410
ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
To solve the hash conflict, nf_ct_resolve_clash() try to merge the
conntracks, and update skb->_nfct. However, br_nf_local_in() still use the
old ct from local variable 'nfct' after confirm(), which leads to this
warning.
If confirm() does not insert the conntrack entry and return NF_DROP, the
warning may also occur. There is no need to reserve the WARN_ON_ONCE, just
remove it.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| October 1, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-39894 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7c3f28599652acf431a2211168de4a583f30b6d5 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.8 | 5.15.192 |
About this page
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