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CVE-2026-90061NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: skip double clone set expressions on element insert
Both the dynset and newsetelem path clone the existing set expressions
when setting set element expressions if no override expressions are
provided. This results in a double clone, once to clone the template set
expressions then another clone on the new element. Add a flag to
annotate if userspace provides a override expression (ie. expression of
the same type of the set but different configuration), otherwise borrow
the existing expression from the set. Add conditionals to release
expression iif they represent an override. Use this new override_exprs
flag to dump the dynset expression override to userspace.
This simplifies the existing logic and it also fixes a bug with the
connlimit expression which results in a module refcount imbalance
WARNING splat when resorting on the default set expressions.
netfilter: nf_tables: skip double clone set expressions on element insert
Both the dynset and newsetelem path clone the existing set expressions
when setting set element expressions if no override expressions are
provided. This results in a double clone, once to clone the template set
expressions then another clone on the new element. Add a flag to
annotate if userspace provides a override expression (ie. expression of
the same type of the set but different configuration), otherwise borrow
the existing expression from the set. Add conditionals to release
expression iif they represent an override. Use this new override_exprs
flag to dump the dynset expression override to userspace.
This simplifies the existing logic and it also fixes a bug with the
connlimit expression which results in a module refcount imbalance
WARNING splat when resorting on the default set expressions.
Affected & Patched Versions
- Linux Linux >= 65038428b2c6c5be79d3f78a6b79c0cdc3a58a41 and < 1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2
- Linux Linux >= 65038428b2c6c5be79d3f78a6b79c0cdc3a58a41 and < 43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9
- Linux Linux >= 5.7
- Linux Linux 1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2
- Linux Linux 43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9