CVE-2026-74565 (GCVE-0-2026-74565)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:28 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:48
VLAI
Title
netfilter: nf_tables: make nft_object rhltable per table
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: make nft_object rhltable per table The nft_object rhltable is global, this allows for accessing objects that are being dismangled from lookup path by other existing netns. Given the nft_obj_destroy() releases the object inmediately, this might lead to use-after-free of these objects that are being released. Make the existing rhltable per table to address this issue to deal with with the nft_rcv_nl_event() path too. Update nft_obj_lookup() to take the table as non-const, otherwise, compiler complains when passing the objname_ht to rhltable_lookup().
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 CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4d44175aa5bb5f68772b1eb0306554812294ca52 , < 1948e4f85b855618b5b9a27265f98d816f4cb7cb (git)
Affected: 4d44175aa5bb5f68772b1eb0306554812294ca52 , < 63ba12b664a2cd3220ed43e22c717715f4cc2ae8 (git)
Affected: 4d44175aa5bb5f68772b1eb0306554812294ca52 , < 7d4789b58761d9d48d9b5f5e7e0a510c3bbfb3af (git)
Affected: 4d44175aa5bb5f68772b1eb0306554812294ca52 , < f4f699790590bd0896c48a71e9232a65198f92f0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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