CVE-2026-43060 (GCVE-0-2026-43060)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-05 15:17 – Updated: 2026-05-08 12:40
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Title
netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal Packets sitting in nfqueue might hold a reference to: - templates that specify the conntrack zone, because a percpu area is used and module removal is possible. - conntrack timeout policies and helper, where object removal leave a stale reference. Since these objects can just go away, drop enqueued packets to avoid stale reference to them. If there is a need for finer grain removal, this logic can be revisited to make selective packet drop upon dependencies.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < 8a64e76933672b08bd85b63086f33432070fd729 (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < 3da0b946835f33bf36b459ead764c61a761e689b (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < ab50302190b303f847c4eba0e31a01a56dec596e (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < e68a8db3a0546482b34e9ca5ca886bcf73eb37bb (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < 6802ff8beceb9c4254318e81c1395720438f2cc2 (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < f29a055e4f593e577805b41228b142b58f48df1b (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < 77da55dee67720e2b8d2db49a53334e6c017ee7b (git)
Affected: 7e0b2b57f01d183e1c84114f1f2287737358d748 , < 36eae0956f659e48d5366d9b083d9417f3263ddc (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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