CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98624
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: hold nfnl mutex in event notifier
We must serialize the release notifier and the config netlink function.
A concurrent thread can issue close() which can call the release function
while unrelated socket processes UNBIND request for same portid:
Oops: general protection fault, [..]
RIP: 0010:__instance_destroy+0x60/0x210 [nfnetlink_queue]
Call Trace:
nfqnl_recv_config+0x9b0/0xdc0 [nfnetlink_queue]
nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7c2/0xeb0
? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
After this, parallel UNBIND and URELEASE events are impossible.
This change isn't nice, but its the shortest fix given instances
are not refcounted and the nfnetlink config callback drops the
rcu read lock early due to need for sleeping allocations.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a3ec8fdc5a1267c00cd6fd1cf8bbb5cda913c1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1184411599a7c2217560bab3bbe641c6d03b95 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e9be1302f25c9be51c2fb8c907bc6d8a1050e33 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46432f2e76f7c385d82506304a2928e7d293289f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/597320337c3da06c92a9e95cfc755da66fedc476 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8137a39e08e838ced234044384740ceeb99ed388 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9461613afc59acef44a0071b0dd5075f6e993ffe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d559e06a5ab7c064100aafd5c826eadd0f1c6216 git.kernel.org