CVE-2026-98624: netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: hold nfnl mutex in event notifier

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nfnetlinkqueue: hold nfnl mutex in event notifier

We must serialize the release notifier and the config netlink function. A concurrent thread can issue close() which can call the release function while unrelated socket processes UNBIND request for same portid:

Oops: general protection fault, [..] RIP: 0010:instancedestroy+0x60/0x210 [nfnetlinkqueue] Call Trace: nfqnlrecvconfig+0x9b0/0xdc0 [nfnetlinkqueue] nfnetlinkrcvmsg+0x7c2/0xeb0 ? pfxnfnetlinkrcvmsg+0x10/0x10

After this, parallel UNBIND and URELEASE events are impossible.

This change isn't nice, but its the shortest fix given instances are not refcounted and the nfnetlink config callback drops the rcu read lock early due to need for sleeping allocations.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:19 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:19 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description

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