CVE-2026-80636

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc56716c69ce1ac320432fb1ea5654196ba24d2f8 < 6bba4846f196d081bf553391d12b5a73dcc48685affected
LinuxLinuxc56716c69ce1ac320432fb1ea5654196ba24d2f8 < 61eab1d0237eb513fe73e391a5926ee70092c325affected
LinuxLinuxc56716c69ce1ac320432fb1ea5654196ba24d2f8 < d53eecbca16f056abba274075cb15120ab062518affected
LinuxLinuxc56716c69ce1ac320432fb1ea5654196ba24d2f8 < a052a94bcc629acaecc2ce42a4af77f8fa399757affected
LinuxLinuxc56716c69ce1ac320432fb1ea5654196ba24d2f8 < 35e21a4dccc5c255ba59ccfbfeb4629ed21da972affected
LinuxLinux5.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.19unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.145 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.97 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.40 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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