Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting nftnl package, versions <0.9.0
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- published27 Nov 2025
- disclosed25 Nov 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 25 Nov 2025
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-122 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade nftnl to version 0.9.0 or higher.
Overview
nftnl is a Safe abstraction for libnftnl. Provides low-level userspace access to the in-kernel nf_tables subsystem
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the with_page_size function. An attacker can cause out-of-bounds writes by supplying a small or malformed page size, leading to the allocation of an insufficient buffer by the underlying C code during batch initialization.