Medium 5.5Published Mar 25, 2026

CVE-2026-23385netfilter: nf_tables: clone set on flush only

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 12:40 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: clone set on flush only Syzbot with fault injection triggered a failing memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL which results in a WARN splat: iter.err WARNING: net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:845 at nft_map_deactivate+0x34e/0x3c0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:845, CPU#0: syz.0.17/5992 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5992 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026 RIP: 0010:nft_map_deactivate+0x34e/0x3c0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:845 Code: 8b 05 86 5a 4e 09 48 3b 84 24 a0 00 00 00 75 62 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc e8 63 6d fa f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 43 +80 7c 35 00 00 0f 85 23 fe ff ff e9 26 fe ff ff 89 d9 RSP: 0018:ffffc900045af780 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff89ca45bd RBX: 00000000fffffff4 RCX: ffff888028111e40 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff4 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc900045af870 R08: 0000000000400dc0 R09: 00000000ffffffff R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d141db R12: ffffc900045af7e0 R13: 1ffff920008b5f24 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc900045af920 FS: 000055557a6a5500(0000) GS:ffff888125496000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fb5ea271fc0 CR3: 000000003269e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: <TASK> __nft_release_table+0xceb/0x11f0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:12115 nft_rcv_nl_event+0xc25/0xdb0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:12187 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6a/0x90 kernel/notifier.c:380 netlink_release+0x123b/0x1ad0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:761 __sock_release net/socket.c:662 [inline] sock_close+0xc3/0x240 net/socket.c:1455 Restrict set clone to the flush set command in the preparation phase. Add NFT_ITER_UPDATE_CLONE and use it for this purpose, update the rbtree and pipapo backends to only clone the set when this iteration type is used. As for the existing NFT_ITER_UPDATE type, update the pipapo backend to use the existing set clone if available, otherwise use the existing set representation. After this update, there is no need to clone a set that is being deleted, this includes bound anonymous set. An alternative approach to NFT_ITER_UPDATE_CLONE is to add a .clone interface and call it from the flush set path.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 744dc9a47a8458ed49becd6123a092c7dae82b8b before e38f054f0af98224003e600545726fbd96379cfb; from 3f1d886cc7c3525d4dbeee24bfa9bb3fe0d48ddc before 454306ceb94dc47a52443181082c91204c007a74; from 3f1d886cc7c3525d4dbeee24bfa9bb3fe0d48ddc before 9154945a6394029822bd08c24cef5a3f86d0424a; from 3f1d886cc7c3525d4dbeee24bfa9bb3fe0d48ddc before b7f67282ca2be14b727dd698b50e10cf5d8c66f9; from 3f1d886cc7c3525d4dbeee24bfa9bb3fe0d48ddc before fb7fb4016300ac622c964069e286dc83166a5d52; 7c80229aa6e2707e59aa80cc041127cf9a79bcc9; 11fb04a111934eb8fbed077cd943719ed16c6447; from 6.6.148 before 6.6.151; and 2 more ranges	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.10.1 before 6.18.17; from 6.19 before 6.19.7; 6.10; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; and 2 more ranges	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e38f054f0af98224003e600545726fbd96379cfb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/454306ceb94dc47a52443181082c91204c007a74
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9154945a6394029822bd08c24cef5a3f86d0424a	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f67282ca2be14b727dd698b50e10cf5d8c66f9	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb7fb4016300ac622c964069e286dc83166a5d52	patch

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