vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-39894: Important priority package update for kernel6.12 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Added
Oct 16, 2025
Modified
Dec 4, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: br_netfilter: do not check confirmed bit in br_nf_local_in() after confirm
When send a broadcast packet to a tap device, which was added to a bridge,
br_nf_local_in() is called to confirm the conntrack. If another conntrack
with the same hash value is added to the hash table, which can be
triggered by a normal packet to a non-bridge device, the below warning
may happen.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:632 br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 96 Comm: tap_send Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-dirty #44 PREEMPT(voluntary)
RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xf0
br_pass_frame_up+0x103/0x180
br_handle_frame_finish+0x2de/0x5b0
br_nf_hook_thresh+0xc0/0x120
br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x168/0x3a0
br_nf_pre_routing+0x237/0x5e0
br_handle_frame+0x1ec/0x3c0
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x225/0x1210
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x37/0xa0
netif_receive_skb+0x36/0x160
tun_get_user+0xa54/0x10c0
tun_chr_write_iter+0x65/0xb0
vfs_write+0x305/0x410
ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
To solve the hash conflict, nf_ct_resolve_clash() try to merge the
conntracks, and update skb->_nfct. However, br_nf_local_in() still use the
old ct from local variable 'nfct' after confirm(), which leads to this
warning.
If confirm() does not insert the conntrack entry and return NF_DROP, the
warning may also occur. There is no need to reserve the WARN_ON_ONCE, just
remove it.

Solutions

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