CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64076

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

A race condition vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter bridge eb_tables module during initialization. The sockopt registration occurs too early, before the module initialization is complete, exposing partially initialized structures globally.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential exploitation of the incompletely initialized module by an attacker, which could lead to unpredictable system behavior or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that moves sockopt registration to the end of the ebtables module initialization.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: bridge: eb_tables: close module init race sashiko reports for unrelated patch: Does the core ebtables initialization in ebtables.c suffer from a similar race? Once nf_register_sockopt() completes, the sockopts are exposed globally. sockopt has to be registered last, just like in ip/ip6/arptables.

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