CVE-2026-43084

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make hash table per queue

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make hash table per queue

Sharing a global hash table among all queues is tempting, but it can cause crash:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x11ac/0x15e0 [nfnetlink_queue] [..] nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x11ac/0x15e0 [nfnetlink_queue] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x46a/0x930 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x11e/0x450

struct nf_queue_entry is freed via kfree, but parallel cpu can still encounter such an nf_queue_entry when walking the list.

Alternative fix is to free the nf_queue_entry via kfree_rcu() instead, but as we have to alloc/free for each skb this will cause more mem pressure.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 371de2bef6582a3f58049b3d18e190924af9c9a0 to before 22730cb96093b5be0609063bbb1923dbecd61252Affected
  • 870e3e63da8e88daffe9d692a025c711658018a8 to before 41e3652a178cb0eecd48e0e6e27fbb73a004046aAffected
  • 70e2e3ce4f6841e12ec1c104fc76c0e707398ec4 to before 9e5ebef91120d2764aefe557c3a484b6288f341fAffected
  • e19079adcd26a25d7d3e586b1837493361fdf8b6 to before 936206e3f6ff411581e615e930263d6f8b78df9dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12.75 to before 6.12.83Affected
  • 6.18.14 to before 6.18.24Affected
  • 6.19.4 to before 6.19.14Affected

References

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