{"id":41323,"date":"2026-10-19T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98851"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:33:13","slug":"cve-2026-98851","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98851","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-98851 &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_flow_o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>netfilter: nft_flow_offload: drop flowtable reference on init error path<\/p>\n<p>nft_flow_offload_init() bumps the flowtable use count with<br \/>\nnft_use_inc() before calling nf_ct_netns_get().  When the latter<br \/>\nfails, the error is returned as-is and the reference is leaked.<\/p>\n<p>The upper layers do not balance it either: nf_tables_newexpr()<br \/>\nclears expr-&gt;ops when the expression init callback fails, so the<br \/>\nnft_expr_more() iteration in nft_rule_expr_deactivate() and<br \/>\nnf_tables_rule_destroy() stops right before the failed expression<br \/>\nand its -&gt;destroy callback, which would drop the reference, never<br \/>\nruns.<\/p>\n<p>Each failed rule addition therefore leaks one flowtable reference<br \/>\nand the flowtable can no longer be removed: NFT_MSG_DELFLOWTABLE<br \/>\nkeeps reporting -EBUSY even though no rule references it.<\/p>\n<p>Save the nf_ct_netns_get() return value and undo the nft_use_inc()<br \/>\nwhen it fails, restoring the inc\/dec pairing within<br \/>\nnft_flow_offload_init() itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>netfilter: nft_flow_offload: drop flowtable reference on init error path<\/p>\n<p>nft_flow_offload_init() bumps the flowtable use count wit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41323","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/41323","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=41323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}