# 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-2026-53218"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:21.069Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:43.516Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53218"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53218.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53218"
title: "netfilter: nft_exthdr: fix register tracking for F_PRESENT flag"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_exthdr: fix register tracking for F_PRESENT flag\n\nnft_exthdr_init() passes user-controlled priv-\u003elen to\nnft_parse_register_store(), which marks that many bytes in the\nregister bitmap as initialized.  However, when NFT_EXTHDR_F_PRESENT\nis set, the eval paths write only 1 byte (nft_reg_store8) or\n4 bytes (*dest = 0 on TCP/DCCP error path).  When len \u003e 4,\nregisters beyond the first are never written, retaining\nuninitialized stack data from nft_regs.\n\nBail out if userspace requests too much data when F_PRESENT is set."
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