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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98793"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:33.555Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:02.773Z"
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-2026-98793"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98793.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98793"
title: "netfilter: bpf: reject invalid NAT manipulation types"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: bpf: reject invalid NAT manipulation types\n\nAs bpf_ct_set_nat_info() is not validating the NAT manipulation type a\nwrong value can be passed directly to nf_nat_setup_info(). This triggers\nthe WARN_ON() at nf_nat_setup_info() and if panic_on_warn isn't set,\nthen IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE is set without adding nat_bysource and conntrack\ncleanup tries to unlink an uninitialized hlist node.\n\nFix this by checking that NAT manipulation type is correct before\ncalling nf_nat_setup_info(). In addition, if the WARN_ON is hit, return\nNF_DROP instead of continuing with the processing to avoid similar\nsituations in the future."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0fabd2aa199faeb8754aee94658f2c48ccb2c8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"752492947be3123ea6c689e2f93ae04ecd675d42"},{"version":"0fabd2aa199faeb8754aee94658f2c48ccb2c8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea777dc90ab37e64fa4b92f6fcf3b5edcef5e058"},{"version":"0fabd2aa199faeb8754aee94658f2c48ccb2c8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6143ae109df56d51d5536e813deb19eee7a6205"},{"version":"0fabd2aa199faeb8754aee94658f2c48ccb2c8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58108f05b0502448f6bb612ee2eccc63bd6449cb"},{"version":"0fabd2aa199faeb8754aee94658f2c48ccb2c8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16d464013ec2267b00a83f4bfbb97b3ecc63bfa7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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