CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90061
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: skip double clone set expressions on element insert
Both the dynset and newsetelem path clone the existing set expressions
when setting set element expressions if no override expressions are
provided. This results in a double clone, once to clone the template set
expressions then another clone on the new element. Add a flag to
annotate if userspace provides a override expression (ie. expression of
the same type of the set but different configuration), otherwise borrow
the existing expression from the set. Add conditionals to release
expression iif they represent an override. Use this new override_exprs
flag to dump the dynset expression override to userspace.
This simplifies the existing logic and it also fixes a bug with the
connlimit expression which results in a module refcount imbalance
WARNING splat when resorting on the default set expressions.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04d1930072e694d9d03bfefdb7e1ebdc872a3d0c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cbf6da967ec8c6e8278b70353b712980a12d848 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6b56b8d549a043b6c8ff616db8748263eae05ae git.kernel.org