CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-72435

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-08-15 Modified 2026-10-16 Official page ↗

Status: Received
Published: 2026-08-15
Last modified: 2026-10-16
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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer() Sashiko pointed out that kfree_rcu() was called before rcu_assign_pointer() in handling the comment extension. Fix the order so that rcu_assign_pointer() called first.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca9982a8882470aa0ac4e8bb9a552b181d1efcd git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b70f56f3baaff46599f59b2d93fa2540120776 git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e98407cb94e035bba98956adc9096a76d8b2a9f git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8087bb360a936a6314d22b567e4b861656943eb6 git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a775fd67f3ef34949a9523bfa69403ee74efdd git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9787d7c24ffd83019f379455e1b97fb4f0f75eb git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01b4b471f0fc5c396af62845e972ccf99cee29a git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcb565966534909377a16be5f7b065db2e25c8b5 git.kernel.org