CVE-2026-23399 (GCVE-0-2026-23399)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-28 07:16
Modified
2026-04-27 13:56
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path If cloning the second stateful expression in the element via GFP_ATOMIC fails, then the first stateful expression remains in place without being released.   unreferenced object (percpu) 0x607b97e9cab8 (size 16):     comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294931867     hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 3):       00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00     backtrace (crc 0):       pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x453/0xd80       nft_counter_clone+0x9c/0x190 [nf_tables]       nft_expr_clone+0x8f/0x1b0 [nf_tables]       nft_dynset_new+0x2cb/0x5f0 [nf_tables]       nft_rhash_update+0x236/0x11c0 [nf_tables]       nft_dynset_eval+0x11f/0x670 [nf_tables]       nft_do_chain+0x253/0x1700 [nf_tables]       nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x18d/0x270 [nf_tables]       nf_hook_slow+0xaa/0x1e0       ip_local_deliver+0x209/0x330
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Linux Linux Version: 563125a73ac30d7036ae69ca35c40500562c1de4
Version: 563125a73ac30d7036ae69ca35c40500562c1de4
Version: 563125a73ac30d7036ae69ca35c40500562c1de4
Version: 563125a73ac30d7036ae69ca35c40500562c1de4
Version: 563125a73ac30d7036ae69ca35c40500562c1de4
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