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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98317"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:12.351Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:27.952Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98317"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98317.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98317"
title: "neighbour: Enforce min/max to NDTPA_INTERVAL_PROBE_TIME_MS."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nneighbour: Enforce min/max to NDTPA_INTERVAL_PROBE_TIME_MS.\n\nNDTPA_INTERVAL_PROBE_TIME_MS sets .type and .min but misses\n.validation_type, so no validation is applied:\n\n  # ynl --family rt-neigh --do setneightbl \\\n  --json '{\"name\": \"arp_cache\", \"parms\": {\"interval-probe-time-ms\": 0}}'\n\n  # ynl --family rt-neigh --dump getneightbl --output-json | \\\n  jq '.[] | select(.name == \"arp_cache\" and has(\"config\"))\n          | .parms[\"interval-probe-time-ms\"]'\n  0\n\nMoreover, nla_get_msecs() uses msecs_to_jiffies(), and u64 is\nsilently cast to u32, so a larger value can bypass the min check:\n\n  e.g. 4294967296 == 0x100000000\n\n  # ynl --family rt-neigh --do setneightbl \\\n  --json '{\"name\": \"arp_cache\", \"parms\": {\"interval-probe-time-ms\": 4294967296}}'\n\n  # ynl --family rt-neigh --dump getneightbl --output-json | \\\n  jq '.[] | select(.name == \"arp_cache\" and has(\"config\"))\n          | .parms[\"interval-probe-time-ms\"]'\n  0\n\nmsecs_to_jiffies() returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET if the value is\nlarger than INT_MAX.  Also, INT_MAX ms overflows int NEIGH_VAR()\nwhen HZ \u003e 1000 (Alpha, MIPS), and passing a negative integer to\nqueue_delayed_work(unsigned long delay) causes sign extension,\nwhich wraps around the expiry time to the past, resulting in it\nbeing handled as 0 delay in the timer wheel.\n\nLet's use NLA_POLICY_FULL_RANGE() and limit the max to 1 day.\n\nThe same max check is applied to sysctl as well.\n\nNote that this controls the probe interval for NTF_MANAGED\nentries, so the max of 1 day is unlikely to break any\ndeployments."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"211da42eaa45db7b0edfde187dd88a85fbd466b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"982c7f66c04134b77126edbfd8a63ecd6928cfd9"},{"version":"211da42eaa45db7b0edfde187dd88a85fbd466b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8550b50e49b01b572e653e572f24ddd73949aa74"},{"version":"211da42eaa45db7b0edfde187dd88a85fbd466b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d79b223ec44ada58ad37db42f539b60985a7722"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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