CVE-2026-23412 (GCVE-0-2026-23412)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-02 11:40
Modified
2026-04-27 14:02
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b
Version: 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b
Version: 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b
Version: 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b
Version: 84601d6ee68ae820dec97450934797046d62db4b
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