CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23272
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally bump set->nelems before insertion
In case that the set is full, a new element gets published then removed
without waiting for the RCU grace period, while RCU reader can be
walking over it already.
To address this issue, add the element transaction even if set is full,
but toggle the set_full flag to report -ENFILE so the abort path safely
unwinds the set to its previous state.
As for element updates, decrement set->nelems to restore it.
A simpler fix is to call synchronize_rcu() in the error path.
However, with a large batch adding elements to already maxed-out set,
this could cause noticeable slowdown of such batches.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.33 < 4.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10.1 < 6.18.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.7)
• linux linux kernel 4.10
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25fcaef7948912652905e96922f36583a84fffed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6826131c7674329335ca25df2550163eb8a1fd0c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86bc4b1a0f672d47ac19f9022432cb6a2e01cb33 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccb8c8f3c1127cf34d18c737309897c68046bf21 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/def602e498a4f951da95c95b1b8ce8ae68aa733a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3ccb11fc8249759d23326038c8db987ddaabc77 git.kernel.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com