CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-45859

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.60%

44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved in netfilter, which caused packets to be dropped instead of queued when an application did not set the 'F_GSO' flag and received a GSO packet with an unconfirmed nf_conn entry.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may experience UDP packet loss, which can lead to network communication issues and application performance degradation.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to benefit from the fixes related to this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: do shared-unconfirmed check before segmentation Ulrich reports a regression with nfqueue: If an application did not set the 'F_GSO' capability flag and a gso packet with an unconfirmed nf_conn entry is received all packets are now dropped instead of queued, because the check happens after skb_gso_segment(). In that case, we did have exclusive ownership of the skb and its associated conntrack entry. The elevated use count is due to skb_clone happening via skb_gso_segment(). Move the check so that its peformed vs. the aggregated packet. Then, annotate the individual segments except the first one so we can do a 2nd check at reinject time. For the normal case, where userspace does in-order reinjects, this avoids packet drops: first reinjected segment continues traversal and confirms entry, remaining segments observe the confirmed entry. While at it, simplify nf_ct_drop_unconfirmed(): We only care about unconfirmed entries with a refcnt > 1, there is no need to special-case dying entries. This only happens with UDP. With TCP, the only unconfirmed packet will be the TCP SYN, those aren't aggregated by GRO. Next patch adds a udpgro test case to cover this scenario.

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