CVE-2022-49919

netfilter: nf_tables: release flow rule object from commit path

CVSS 7 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-416

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

01 May 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: release flow rule object from commit path No need to postpone this to the commit release path, since no packets are walking over this object, this is accessed from control plane only. This helped uncovered UAF triggered by races with the netlink notifier.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b5934ff4194e13196bedcba373cd4915071d0e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab6f96444e936f5e4a936d5c0bc948144bcded3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6044791b7be707fd0e709f26e961a446424e5051 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74fd5839467054cd9c4d050614d3ee8788386171 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2d7a92aff0fbd93c29d2aa6451fb99f050e2c4e