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: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops
Florian Westphal says:
"Historically this is not an issue, even for normal base hooks: the data
path doesn't use the original nf_hook_ops that are used to register the
callbacks.
However, in v5.14 I added the ability to dump the active netfilter
hooks from userspace.
This code will peek back into the nf_hook_ops that are available
at the tail of the pointer-array blob used by the datapath.
The nat hooks are special, because they are called indirectly from
the central nat dispatcher hook. They are currently invisible to
the nfnl hook dump subsystem though.
But once that changes the nat ops structures have to be deferred too."
Update nf_nat_register_fn() to deal with partial exposition of the hooks
from error path which can be also an issue for nfnetlink_hook.
netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops
Florian Westphal says:
"Historically this is not an issue, even for normal base hooks: the data
path doesn't use the original nf_hook_ops that are used to register the
callbacks.
However, in v5.14 I added the ability to dump the active netfilter
hooks from userspace.
This code will peek back into the nf_hook_ops that are available
at the tail of the pointer-array blob used by the datapath.
The nat hooks are special, because they are called indirectly from
the central nat dispatcher hook. They are currently invisible to
the nfnl hook dump subsystem though.
But once that changes the nat ops structures have to be deferred too."
Update nf_nat_register_fn() to deal with partial exposition of the hooks
from error path which can be also an issue for nfnetlink_hook.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-53000
Source
Linux
Published
Jun 24, 2026 at 16:29
Modified
Jun 28, 2026 at 06:37
Affected Product
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Version
e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Affected Versions
Linux Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Linux Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Linux Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Linux Linux 5.14
Linux Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Linux Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Linux Linux 5.14