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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2026

netfilter: xtables: restrict several matches to inet family

CVE-2026-53001

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: xtables: restrict several matches to inet family

This is a partial revert of:

commit ab4f21e6fb1c ("netfilter: xtables: use NFPROTO_UNSPEC in more extensions")

to allow ipv4 and ipv6 only.

  • xt_mac
  • xt_owner
  • xt_physdev

These extensions are not used by ebtables in userspace.

Moreover, xt_realm is only for ipv4, since dst->tclassid is ipv4 specific.

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