In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_limit: avoid possible divide error in nft_limit_init
div_u64() divides u64 by u32.
nft_limit_init() wants to divide u64 by u64, use the appropriate
math function (div64_u64)
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 8390 Comm: syz-executor188 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:div_u64_rem include/linux/math64.h:28 [inline]
RIP: 0010:div_u64 include/linux/math64.h:127 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nft_limit_init+0x2a2/0x5e0 net/netfilter/nft_limit.c:85
Code: ef 4c 01 eb 41 0f 92 c7 48 89 de e8 38 a5 22 fa 4d 85 ff 0f 85 97 02 00 00 e8 ea 9e 22 fa 4c 0f af f3 45 89 ed 31 d2 4c 89 f0 <49> f7 f5 49 89 c6 e8 d3 9e 22 fa 48 8d 7d 48 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90009447198 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000200000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff875152e6 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffff888020f80908 R08: 0000200000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff875152d8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90009447270
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 000000000097a300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000200001c4 CR3: 0000000026a52000 CR4: 00000000001506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
nf_tables_newexpr net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2675 [inline]
nft_expr_init+0x145/0x2d0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2713
nft_set_elem_expr_alloc+0x27/0x280 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5160
nf_tables_newset+0x1997/0x3150 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:4321
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x85a/0x21b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:456
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:580 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:598
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
netlink_sendmsg+0x856/0xd90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1927
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:674
____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2350
___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2404
__sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2433
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it