CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23278
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: always walk all pending catchall elements
During transaction processing we might have more than one catchall element:
1 live catchall element and 1 pending element that is coming as part of the
new batch.
If the map holding the catchall elements is also going away, its
required to toggle all catchall elements and not just the first viable
candidate.
Otherwise, we get:
WARNING: ./include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1281 at nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables], CPU#2: nft/1404
RIP: 0010:nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables]
[..]
__nft_set_elem_destroy+0x106/0x380 [nf_tables]
nf_tables_abort_release+0x348/0x8d0 [nf_tables]
nf_tables_abort+0xcf2/0x3ac0 [nf_tables]
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x9c9/0x20e0 [..]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.316 < 4.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.262 < 5.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.188 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.121 < 5.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.36 < 6.2)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3.10 < 6.4)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4.1 < 6.12.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.9)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4830fb44d12f586f3f544609e086933649a9175a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77c26b5056d693ffe5e9f040e946251cdb55ae55 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb9a23d7ae40a702577d3d8bacb7026f04ac2a9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4d4e86fda707d89eaba80e343321737375f8582 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de47a88c6b807910f05703fb6605f7efdaa11417 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb0948fa13298212c5f8b30ee48efdae4389ab09 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com