CVE-2022-49561

Publication date

2025-02-26 02:14:06

Family

Linux

State

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: re-fetch conntrack after insertion In case the conntrack is clashing, insertion can free skb->_nfct and set skb->_nfct to the already-confirmed entry. This wasnt found before because the conntrack entry and the extension space used to freed after an rcu grace period, plus the race needs events enabled to trigger.