# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43329"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:31:17.479Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:26.468Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43329"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43329.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43329"
title: "netfilter: flowtable: strictly check for maximum number of actions"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: flowtable: strictly check for maximum number of actions\n\nThe maximum number of flowtable hardware offload actions in IPv6 is:\n\n* ethernet mangling (4 payload actions, 2 for each ethernet address)\n* SNAT (4 payload actions)\n* DNAT (4 payload actions)\n* Double VLAN (4 vlan actions, 2 for popping vlan, and 2 for pushing)\n  for QinQ.\n* Redirect (1 action)\n\nWhich makes 17, while the maximum is 16. But act_ct supports for tunnels\nactions too. Note that payload action operates at 32-bit word level, so\nmangling an IPv6 address takes 4 payload actions.\n\nUpdate flow_action_entry_next() calls to check for the maximum number of\nsupported actions.\n\nWhile at it, rise the maximum number of actions per flow from 16 to 24\nso this works fine with IPv6 setups."
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