CVE-2026-72247: Software Security Vulnerability Vulnerability

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  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-hcwx-4hjx-599v",
  "modified" : "2026-08-17T06:33:18Z",
  "published" : "2026-08-15T06:32:17Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-72247" ],
  "details" : "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conncount: fix zone comparison in tuple dedup\n\nThe \"already exists\" dedup logic in __nf_conncount_add() decides\nwhether a connection has already been counted and can be skipped instead\nof incrementing the connlimit count.  It compares the conntrack zone of a\nlist entry with the zone of the connection being added using\nnf_ct_zone_id() and nf_ct_zone_equal(), passing conn->zone.dir or\nzone->dir as the direction argument.\n\nThose helpers take enum ip_conntrack_dir values: IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL is 0\nand IP_CT_DIR_REPLY is 1.  However, zone->dir is a u8 bitmask:\nNF_CT_ZONE_DIR_ORIG is 1, NF_CT_ZONE_DIR_REPL is 2 and\nNF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR is 3.  Passing that bitmask as the enum direction\nshifts the meaning of every non-zero value.  An ORIG-only zone passes 1\nand is tested as REPLY, while REPL-only and default zones pass 2 or 3 and\ntest bits beyond the valid direction range.  In those cases\nnf_ct_zone_id() can fall back to NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_ID instead of using\nthe real zone id, so different zones can be treated as equal and dedup\ncollapses to tuple equality alone.\n\nnf_conncount stores and compares the original-direction tuple for a\nconnection.  If an skb already has an attached conntrack entry,\nget_ct_or_tuple_from_skb() explicitly copies\nct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple, regardless of the packet's\nctinfo.  Therefore the zone comparison in the tuple dedup path must use\nIP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL as well; the zone direction bitmask describes where a\nzone id applies, not which direction this conncount tuple represents.\n\nFix the two dedup comparisons by passing IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL directly.\nDo not special-case NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR and do not compare raw zone\nids: using the existing helpers with IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL preserves the\ndirection-aware NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_ID fallback.  A default bidirectional\nzone contains the ORIG bit, so it naturally returns the real zone id;\nreply-only zones continue to fall back for original-direction tuple\ncomparisons.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72247"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a56e2a46b90e6bd4ca816b80e9cb8d20dfc3ce"
  }, {
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cd9a5792cbea81139c24320986dd0db69e9b5d0"
  }, {
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    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f30a89c0ed2418719a1144881c2635b940b543d"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ff07ac5405bea4d4ead3559fc123f987576424a"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b5d6dbc860776161f9e9206b06ff8a01f531ab"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bdc3c0985ecf17b957811fedcc684acdf698acc"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82fc35e0da9a91db9a034f8311f18f77a599ae3f"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f62c41b4910e65da396ec9a8c40c1fe7fe82e449"
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  "database_specific" : {
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    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : false,
    "github_reviewed_at" : null,
    "nvd_published_at" : "2026-08-15T06:21:51Z"
  }
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