CVE-2026-53000

HIGH

netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.5%
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-763
Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 6.18.33linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 6.18.33 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.10 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1
Linux/Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9 - 32fdd2e38e7435a368d88f5977a7d6585ebc8b0e
Linux/Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9 - 3c7511f38ab511b791196b13ae48bf4973bf7dfd
Linux/Linux e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9 - 6eda0d771f94267f73f57c94630aa47e90957915
Published Jun 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 24, 2026