Bug 2449570 (CVE-2026-23278) - CVE-2026-23278 kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: always walk all pending catchall elements
Summary: CVE-2026-23278 kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: always walk all pending catchall...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23278
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-03-20 09:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-20 12:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-20 09:03:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: always walk all pending catchall elements

During transaction processing we might have more than one catchall element:
1 live catchall element and 1 pending element that is coming as part of the
new batch.

If the map holding the catchall elements is also going away, its
required to toggle all catchall elements and not just the first viable
candidate.

Otherwise, we get:
 WARNING: ./include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1281 at nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables], CPU#2: nft/1404
 RIP: 0010:nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables]
 [..]
 __nft_set_elem_destroy+0x106/0x380 [nf_tables]
 nf_tables_abort_release+0x348/0x8d0 [nf_tables]
 nf_tables_abort+0xcf2/0x3ac0 [nf_tables]
 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x9c9/0x20e0 [..]


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