CVE-2026-23399
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path If cloning the second stateful expression in the element via GFP_ATOMIC fails, then the first stateful expression remains in place without being released. unreferenced object (percpu) 0x607b97e9cab8 (size 16): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294931867 hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 3): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 backtrace (crc 0): pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x453/0xd80 nft_counter_clone+0x9c/0x190 [nf_tables] nft_expr_clone+0x8f/0x1b0 [nf_tables] nft_dynset_new+0x2cb/0x5f0 [nf_tables] nft_rhash_update+0x236/0x11c0 [nf_tables] nft_dynset_eval+0x11f/0x670 [nf_tables] nft_do_chain+0x253/0x1700 [nf_tables] nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x18d/0x270 [nf_tables] nf_hook_slow+0xaa/0x1e0 ip_local_deliver+0x209/0x330
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
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OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 5.11 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | 6.12.78 |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.12.85-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 6.19.10-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.19.10-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gcp | | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23399.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-23399
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0548a13b5a145b16e4da0628b5936baf35f51b43
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31641c682db73353e4647e40735c7f2a75ff58ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4357dbb1d9c35ca0b4443d71c98a48e6666f7689
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c88a9fd26cee365bec932196f76175772a941cca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1354873cbe3b344899c4311ac05897fd83e3f21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6661add2d9c6913e1dad97336595e23a2bed195
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb7bf413e59945df03d4567b73ce464eebe2f4ea
CWEs
CWE-401
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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