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CVE-2026-45859

7.5 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 4

  1. References+1 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
  2. CwesCWE-400NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
  3. StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
  4. First seenCVSS 7.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 6

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 5