CVE-2026-53000

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops Florian Westphal says: "Historically this is not an issue, even for normal base hooks: the data path doesn't use the original nf_hook_ops that are used to register the callbacks. However, in v5.14 I added the ability to dump the active netfilter hooks from userspace. This code will peek back into the nf_hook_ops that are available at the tail of the pointer-array blob used by the datapath. The nat hooks are special, because they are called indirectly from the central nat dispatcher hook. They are currently invisible to the nfnl hook dump subsystem though. But once that changes the nat ops structures have to be deferred too." Update nf_nat_register_fn() to deal with partial exposition of the hooks from error path which can be also an issue for nfnetlink_hook.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJun 24, 2026
First seenJun 24, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-763CWE-763

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.14 ≤ v < 6.18.33, 6.19 ≤ v < 7.0.106.18.33, 7.0.10
redhat enterprise_linux9.0, 10.0—

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