CVE-2026-45897 PUBLISHED

netfilter: nft_counter: serialize reset with spinlock

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nft_counter: serialize reset with spinlock

Add a global static spinlock to serialize counter fetch+reset operations, preventing concurrent dump-and-reset from underrunning values.

The lock is taken before fetching the total so that two parallel resets cannot both read the same counter values and then both subtract them.

A global lock is used for simplicity since resets are infrequent. If this becomes a bottleneck, it can be replaced with a per-net lock later.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3cb03edb4de33fd04c4ea55f47397b96a8657c53 to 0cdc6d5a26f2d1f7f15a43526841b679445c32e2 (excl.)
  • affected from 3cb03edb4de33fd04c4ea55f47397b96a8657c53 to 779c60a5190c42689534172f4b49e927c9959e4e (excl.)
  • Version fb1adb05ea87b6149e65a31e511756c4f470d0cd is affected
  • Version f123293db16dcd0cd81b246ae60e6362f0025d0a is affected
  • affected from 6.1.107 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.48 to 6.7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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