CVE-2026-53269 PUBLISHED

netfilter: synproxy: add mutex to guard hook reference counting

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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

netfilter: synproxy: add mutex to guard hook reference counting

As the synproxy infrastructure register netfilter hooks on-demand when a user adds the first iptables target or nftables expression, if done concurrently they can race each other.

Introduce a mutex to serialize the refcount control blocks access from both frontends. While a per namespace mutex might be more efficient, it is not needed for target/expression like SYNPROXY.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to 0ec9ddc1bda261a2c57636c74c8b4e53000102c9 (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to 56ffbe3a08c01dcdb0d6adee9ce1e535bfb3b389 (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to debc57b83d5b323df74bf010c8d50fe26ad2ed6b (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to 0f8ba5e4c53d2e4a536aa68140beda9fe59b2f88 (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to 640441348258220e78daed40528b85b8afcedab6 (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to aaf80701dc2f7a48fe543961e21f8ca3924d587c (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to fbf0591275f50eae5733c3d7a8cd6c1e79933ffa (excl.)
  • affected from ad49d86e07a497e834cb06f2b151dccd75f8e148 to 2fcba19caaeb2a33017459d3430f057967bb91b6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.259 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.210 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.176 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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