CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80636

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the netfilter conntrack module reverts the ct extension genid infrastructure because it is no longer used. The previous change could disable all ct extensions for unconfirmed connections, potentially leading to crashes.

Risk Assessment

This can cause system crashes for unconfirmed connections, affecting system stability.

Recommendation

Install a kernel patch that reverts the mentioned genid infrastructure.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: revert ct extension genid infrastructure This infrastructure is not used anymore after moving ct timeout and helper to use datapath refcount to track object use. Revert commit c56716c69ce1 ("netfilter: extensions: introduce extension genid count") this patch disables all ct extensions (leading to NULL) for unconfirmed conntracks, when this is only targeted at ct helper and ct timeout. There is also codebase that dereferences the ct extension without checking for NULL which could lead to crash.

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