netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98320
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released nf_ct_put() releases the ct->ext area inmediately, the rcu typesafe semantics also allow to refer to the wrong conntrack from the flowtable datapath. Hold reference on ct until flow is released after rcu grace period. Add rcu_barrier() on module exit path, to ensure pending flow entries are release before module goes away.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < 93ff1594be1aad4da364462dd8db050ebcfda2de ; affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < eed6997e8dc40593a539fcc722e7ed51b18db86c ; affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < 61c6688be282277c6e91ab286a7acd0ae8681ac6 ; affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < a43cd2b67b91e943273c913237a7a88c50cdcfbc ; affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < 8274cdc5f9c57e17ed77fc4ba76212536c840f25 ; affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a < 12c1ac230f4ca16e0017b62a963ab75e0b48074f
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.16 ; unaffected 0 < 4.16 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD