Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-45859

Linux Linux

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: do shared-unconfirmed check before segmentation

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: do shared-unconfirmed check before segmentation Ulrich reports a regression with nfqueue: If an application did not set the 'F_GSO' capability flag and a gso packet with an unconfirmed nf_conn entry is received all packets are now dropped instead of queued, because the check happens after skb_gso_segment(). In that case, we did have exclusive ownership of the skb and its associated conntrack entry. The elevated use count is due to skb_clone happening via skb_gso_segment(). Move the check so that its peformed vs. the aggregated packet. Then, annotate the individual segments except the first one so we can do a 2nd check at reinject time. For the normal case, where userspace does in-order reinjects, this avoids packet drops: first reinjected segment continues traversal and confirms entry, remaining segments observe the confirmed entry. While at it, simplify nf_ct_drop_unconfirmed(): We only care about unconfirmed entries with a refcnt > 1, there is no need to special-case dying entries. This only happens with UDP. With TCP, the only unconfirmed packet will be the TCP SYN, those aren't aggregated by GRO. Next patch adds a udpgro test case to cover this scenario.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 025b3326c5c409b372d0103ad30f174e55adbd1b CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6.11 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6c4a0ba674f410ab99a30a16f32dac0ebfed5cd3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 5.15.166 ≤ v < 5.16 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6.1.107 ≤ v < 6.1.191 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6.10.7 ≤ v < 6.11 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6.6.48 ≤ v < 6.6.160 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 6dcc8ba8a6074bb79040f502dc66ad23a58a1c86 ≤ v < 4666688657e1054278b836b825fb88b2907e2da2 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 74e6eb7fd27ef1ccc68041dbc66e6d80d2e4a1a0 ≤ v < aead84bdacd77e08357fd718e5dcaffaf387f3c3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 7d8dc1c7be8d3509e8f5164dd5df64c8e34d7eeb ≤ v < 79b713ef4261a8ead96af4703f89d0b5f25532e2 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 7d8dc1c7be8d3509e8f5164dd5df64c8e34d7eeb ≤ v < 207b3ebacb6113acaaec0d171d5307032c690004 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 7d8dc1c7be8d3509e8f5164dd5df64c8e34d7eeb ≤ v < b740e7ddd7ca0dbfeafca3f5e52717206cf28524 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 7d8dc1c7be8d3509e8f5164dd5df64c8e34d7eeb ≤ v < 23901aa6b8a2f294c4b774436b4691f3ff863a8f CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-05-27
Last updated
2026-10-30
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.71%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
53.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400
    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption