CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93288
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- 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: nfnetlink_log: wait for rcu grace period before freeing pernet state
sashiko reports: "nfnl_log_net_exit() calls nf_log_unset(), which
clears the logger pointer without an RCU grace period. Immediately after,
ops_free_list() frees the per-net state while concurrent packets might
still be executing nf_log_packet() under rcu_read_lock()."
Clear the pointer via .pre_exit to make sure rcu readers have completed
before pernet storage is free'd. The change in nf_log_syslog.c is only
done for consistency: it doesn't use pernet data.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33d1469b0124cc0baaea7a2032123b77a81e0940 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b9aa62d78ce80de47af2db472ff452398755213 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5570d6c8b320dbcc602617ee08c27ce752fed65a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba2e246aa294f9acd86194ea87fb6834ed0a37ac git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc20050b6b12ca58066715d088e1a537535d938d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4461654374576e9d5d0245fd534c46ad8509051 git.kernel.org