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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_inner: release local_lock before re-enabling softirqs\n\nQuoting sashiko:\n In the error path, local_bh_enable() is called before\n local_unlock_nested_bh()."
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              "value": "AV:N - The bug is hit during packet evaluation in netfilter hooks (prerouting/forward/input) when tunneled traffic (GRE/UDP/Geneve) matching admin-deployed `inner` rules is processed; remote packets reach `nft_inner_restore_tun_ctx()` without any local syscall.\nAC:L - An attacker can reliably provoke the cookie-mismatch error path by sending concurrent tunneled packets through an `inner`-enabled chain, controlling both sides of the per-CPU context race; no attacker-uncontrollable memory layout or rare timing is required.\nPR:N - Exploitation requires only the ability to send network packets to a host whose nftables rules already include `inner` expressions (typical on cloud NFV/firewall gateways); no local account, capability, or user-namespace `CAP_NET_ADMIN` is needed by the remote attacker.\nUI:N - No victim interaction beyond normal network traffic delivery to a host running nftables tunnel-inspection rules; the attacker does not need the victim to open files, mount filesystems, or take any deliberate action.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel netfilter/nftables processing on the target host; it does not cross VM, container, or IOMMU security boundaries to affect separate security authorities.\nC:H - Re-enabling softirqs before releasing the nested-BH lock breaks serialization of the per-CPU `nft_pcpu_tun_ctx`, allowing concurrent corruption of inner header offsets that `nft_payload_inner_eval()` uses in `skb_copy_bits()`, yielding out-of-bounds kernel memory reads.\nI:H - The same unsynchronized per-CPU state corruption can desynchronize inner parsing metadata and, on PREEMPT_RT, leave a per-CPU spinlock held across softirq re-entry causing deadlock; memory corruption of parsing state is exploitable for further control of packet-processing behavior.\nA:H - On PREEMPT_RT kernels the inverted unlock/BH ordering leaves the per-CPU spinlock held while softirqs run, causing softirq handlers to block on the same lock and producing CPU deadlock or soft lockup; non-RT paths can also crash or hang from the resulting race."
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