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GHSA-8R5M-9XX4-3V9J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-05-07 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects

commit release path is invoked via call_rcu and it runs lockless to release the objects after rcu grace period. The netlink notifier handler might win race to remove objects that the transaction context is still referencing from the commit release path.

Call rcu_barrier() to ensure pending rcu callbacks run to completion if the list of transactions to be destroyed is not empty.

Severity

4.7 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2022-49920 (GCVE-0-2022-49920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:10 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:56

Title

netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects commit release path is invoked via call_rcu and it runs lockless to release the objects after rcu grace period. The netlink notifier handler might win race to remove objects that the transaction context is still referencing from the commit release path. Call rcu_barrier() to ensure pending rcu callbacks run to completion if the list of transactions to be destroyed is not empty.

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

4.7 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-01 14:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ffe7100411a8b901…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e40b7c44d19e327ad…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4bc8271db21ea9f1…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6001a930ce0378b62210d4f83583fc88a903d89d , < 1ffe7100411a8b9015115ce124cd6c9c9da6f8e3 (git) Affected: 6001a930ce0378b62210d4f83583fc88a903d89d , < e40b7c44d19e327ad8b49a491ef1fa8dcc4566e0 (git) Affected: 6001a930ce0378b62210d4f83583fc88a903d89d , < d4bc8271db21ea9f1c86a1ca4d64999f184d4aae (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.78 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.8 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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