FKIE_CVE-2026-90061

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-17 17:16 - Updated: 2026-09-17 17:16
Severity
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "product": "Linux",
          "programFiles": [
            "include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h",
            "net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c",
            "net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c"
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "65038428b2c6c5be79d3f78a6b79c0cdc3a58a41",
              "versionType": "git"
            },
            {
              "lessThan": "43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "65038428b2c6c5be79d3f78a6b79c0cdc3a58a41",
              "versionType": "git"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "defaultStatus": "affected",
          "product": "Linux",
          "programFiles": [
            "include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h",
            "net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c",
            "net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c"
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "5.7"
            },
            {
              "lessThan": "5.7",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "0",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.2.6",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.3-rc1",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
    }
  ],
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: skip double clone set expressions on element insert\n\nBoth the dynset and newsetelem path clone the existing set expressions\nwhen setting set element expressions if no override expressions are\nprovided. This results in a double clone, once to clone the template set\nexpressions then another clone on the new element. Add a flag to\nannotate if userspace provides a override expression (ie. expression of\nthe same type of the set but different configuration), otherwise borrow\nthe existing expression from the set. Add conditionals to release\nexpression iif they represent an override. Use this new override_exprs\nflag to dump the dynset expression override to userspace.\n\nThis simplifies the existing logic and it also fixes a bug with the\nconnlimit expression which results in a module refcount imbalance\nWARNING splat when resorting on the default set expressions."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-90061",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-17T17:16:54.833",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-09-17T17:16:54.833",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e7fb6801d9cc826adcdb7fa0533c397730657f2"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43559058d21e0493aa220ac167e0279334dea5f9"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.