CVE-2026-98969

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload This is a follow-up to commit 9c572a83037a ("net/sched: fix potential stack infoleak in em_text_dump()"), which zero-initialised the dump-side struct. Sashiko pointed at a pre-existing bug that exposed the change-side input-validation gap open. em_text_change() casts the raw netlink attribute payload to struct tcf_em_text and passes conf->algo, a 16-byte array with no enforced NUL terminator, to textsearch_prepare(). On the TS_AUTOLOAD retry textsearch_prepare() calls request_module("ts_%s", algo); vsnprintf() walks %s until it finds a NUL, so an algo[] with no NUL reads past the array into the adjacent struct fields and payload and feeds those bytes to the usermode helper command line. This is an out-of-bounds read and a kernel memory disclosure. Reject the attribute when no NUL exists within TC_EM_TEXT_ALGOSIZ bytes, matching the check xt_string has had since 3ab720881b6e. Conditions to recreate the bug: - CAP_NET_ADMIN on the target netns (namespace-local via unshare -Urn is enough) - install clsact on an interface, then add a basic filter with one text ematch whose algo[] is 16 bytes with no NUL (e.g. "A"*16) and pattern_len at least 1 - the add fails with -ENOENT and the kernel invokes modprobe with a module name made of "ts_" plus the 16 bytes and the adjacent payload

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-10-23 13:17:18.440000

Last modified

2026-10-30 13:21:33.367000

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  "published": "2026-10-23T13:17:18.440",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-30T13:21:33.367",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: em_text: reject unterminated algo before autoload\n\nThis is a follow-up to commit 9c572a83037a (\"net/sched: fix potential\nstack infoleak in em_text_dump()\"), which zero-initialised the dump-side\nstruct. Sashiko pointed at a pre-existing bug that exposed the change-side\ninput-validation gap open.\n\nem_text_change() casts the raw netlink attribute payload to struct\ntcf_em_text and passes conf->algo, a 16-byte array with no enforced NUL\nterminator, to textsearch_prepare().  On the TS_AUTOLOAD retry\ntextsearch_prepare() calls request_module(\"ts_%s\", algo); vsnprintf()\nwalks %s until it finds a NUL, so an algo[] with no NUL reads past the\narray into the adjacent struct fields and payload and feeds those bytes\nto the usermode helper command line.  This is an out-of-bounds read and\na kernel memory disclosure.\n\nReject the attribute when no NUL exists within TC_EM_TEXT_ALGOSIZ bytes,\nmatching the check xt_string has had since 3ab720881b6e.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n- CAP_NET_ADMIN on the target netns (namespace-local via unshare -Urn\n  is enough)\n- install clsact on an interface, then add a basic filter with one text\n  ematch whose algo[] is 16 bytes with no NUL (e.g. \"A\"*16) and\n  pattern_len at least 1\n- the add fails with -ENOENT and the kernel invokes modprobe with a\n  module name made of \"ts_\" plus the 16 bytes and the adjacent payload"
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