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FKIE_CVE-2026-93288

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-24 17:17 - Updated: 2026-09-25 13:17

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: nfnetlink_log: wait for rcu grace period before freeing pernet state sashiko reports: "nfnl_log_net_exit() calls nf_log_unset(), which clears the logger pointer without an RCU grace period. Immediately after, ops_free_list() frees the per-net state while concurrent packets might still be executing nf_log_packet() under rcu_read_lock()." Clear the pointer via .pre_exit to make sure rcu readers have completed before pernet storage is free'd. The change in nf_log_syslog.c is only done for consistency: it doesn't use pernet data.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33d1469b0124cc0baaea7a2032123b77a81e0940
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc20050b6b12ca58066715d088e1a537535d938d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4461654374576e9d5d0245fd534c46ad8509051

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-93288 (GCVE-0-2026-93288)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:02 – Updated: 2026-09-25 12:42

Title

netfilter: nfnetlink_log: wait for rcu grace period before freeing pernet state

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4461654374576e9d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc20050b6b12ca580…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33d1469b0124cc0ba…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee , < f4461654374576e9d5d0245fd534c46ad8509051 (git) Affected: c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee , < dc20050b6b12ca58066715d088e1a537535d938d (git) Affected: c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee , < 33d1469b0124cc0baaea7a2032123b77a81e0940 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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