CVE-2026-23412

HIGH

netfilter: bpf: defer hook memory release until rcu readers are done

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: bpf: defer hook memory release until rcu readers are done Yiming Qian reports UaF when concurrent process is dumping hooks via nfnetlink_hooks: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nfnl_hook_dump_one.isra.0+0xe71/0x10f0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888003edbf88 by task poc/79 Call Trace: <TASK> nfnl_hook_dump_one.isra.0+0xe71/0x10f0 netlink_dump+0x554/0x12b0 nfnl_hook_get+0x176/0x230 [..] Defer release until after concurrent readers have completed.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.12.78 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.20 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.10 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.6.130 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7.0-rc5
Linux/Linux 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b - 24f90fa3994b992d1a09003a3db2599330a5232a
Linux/Linux 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b - 54244d54a971c26a0cd0a9073460ff71f3c51b32
... and 6 more
Published Apr 02, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 02, 2026