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CVE-2026-31427

5.5 medium Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix use of uninitialized rtp_addr in process_sdp process_sdp() declares union nf_inet_addr rtp_addr on the stack and passes it to the nf_nat_sip sdp_session hook after walking the SDP media descriptions. However rtp_addr is only initialized inside the media loop when a recognized media type with a non-zero port is found. If the SDP body contains no m= lines, only inactive media sections (m=audio 0 ...) or only unrecognized media types, rtp_addr is never assigned. Despite that, the function still calls hooks->sdp_session() with &rtp_addr, causing nf_nat_sdp_session() to format the stale stack value as an IP address and rewrite the SDP session owner and connection lines with it. With CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO (default on most distributions) this results in the session-level o= and c= addresses being rewritten to 0.0.0.0 for inactive SDP sessions. Without stack auto-init the rewritten address is whatever happened to be on the stack. Fix this by pre-initializing rtp_addr from the session-level connection address (caddr) when available, and tracking via a have_rtp_addr flag whether any valid address was established. Skip the sdp_session hook entirely when no valid address exists.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:19

Affected (CPE criteria) 6

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 11