CVE 7.8 HIGH

netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal_CVE-2026-43060

7.8 / 10
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: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal

Packets sitting in nfqueue might hold a reference to:

- templates that specify the conntrack zone, because a percpu area is
used and module removal is possible.
- conntrack timeout policies and helper, where object removal leave
a stale reference.

Since these objects can just go away, drop enqueued packets to avoid
stale reference to them.

If there is a need for finer grain removal, this logic can be revisited
to make selective packet drop upon dependencies.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-43060
Source Linux
Published May 5, 2026 at 15:17
Modified May 8, 2026 at 12:40

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Affected Versions Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748
Linux Linux 4.19

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