{"id":40963,"date":"2026-10-19T00:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98491"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:31:41","slug":"cve-2026-98491","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98491","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-98491 &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>net: openvswitch: conntrack: avoid modifying shared unconfirmed ct entry<\/p>\n<p>In a case where skb with an unconfirmed ct entry gets cloned, we may<br \/>\nend up committing both but with different sets of extensions.<\/p>\n<p>The series of events:<\/p>\n<p> 1. The first clone wants to commit and runs the helpers wiring up<br \/>\n    the extension pointer into the expectation list.<br \/>\n 2. Then it looses the confirmation keeping the entry unconfirmed.<br \/>\n 3. Second clone now wants to commit labels and adds the new extension<br \/>\n    for that breaking the pointer in the expectation list causing<br \/>\n    UAF on the destruction path later.<\/p>\n<p>While this is possible to trigger, there should be no practical<br \/>\nnetwork pipeline where committing both clones without modifications<br \/>\ninto the same zone is needed.  So, let&#8217;s just reset the entry in case<br \/>\nfor some reason we got an skb with a shared one during commit.  This<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t affect any known use cases, but avoids any potential problems<br \/>\nwith sharing and modification of the unconfirmed ct entry.<\/p>\n<p>The fixes tag points to the introduction of helpers, since that&#8217;s the<br \/>\nmain UAF trigger for the sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>net: openvswitch: conntrack: avoid modifying shared unconfirmed ct entry<\/p>\n<p>In a case where skb with an unconfirmed ct entry gets clo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40963","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/40963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}