CVE-2025-71146 (GCVE-0-2025-71146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 14:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:12
VLAI
Title
netfilter: nf_conncount: fix leaked ct in error paths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conncount: fix leaked ct in error paths There are some situations where ct might be leaked as error paths are skipping the refcounted check and return immediately. In order to solve it make sure that the check is always called.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6e86f0eca857ee42787e30e9ec0b726aebfcae0a , < 08fa37f4c8c59c294e9c18fea2d083ee94074e5a (git)
Affected: b160895d6bc9690459b16ef87799c9bd456af3ec , < e1ac8dce3a893641bef224ad057932f142b8a36f (git)
Affected: 8d5a2c94c24dcc226863a7c2b5034750370c2189 , < f381a33f34dda9e4023e38ba68c943bca83245e9 (git)
Affected: da9f247fb5efcd5a2730cdc989291b383c439e10 , < 325eb61bb30790ea27782203a17b007ce1754a67 (git)
Affected: 3558faee8aace3541189c3a2ca45c7e85e144b44 , < 0b88be7211d21a0d68bb1e56dc805944e3654d6f (git)
Affected: f6904ed15ed1a188543057e3cb0d02daa80edfc9 , < 4bd2b89f4028f250dd1c1625eb3da1979b04a5e8 (git)
Affected: be102eb6a0e7c03db00e50540622f4e43b2d2844 , < 2e2a720766886190a6d35c116794693aabd332b6 (git)
Affected: 8c2da7330214ce30f8333d1799a27ed0a9418f07 (git)
Affected: 6.17.13 , < 6.18 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12.63 , < 6.12.64 (semver)
Affected: 6.18.2 , < 6.18.3 (semver)
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