CVE-2026-98251 PUBLISHED

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels

ovs_ct_get_conn_labels() adds the labels extension when a conntrack entry does not have one. Confirmed conntracks can be read locklessly, so adding an extension may reallocate and free the extension block while another CPU accesses it.

Only add the extension for unconfirmed conntracks. A confirmed conntrack without labels now fails the caller's label operation instead of reallocating its extension storage.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 4371d79ea74407fb992c985b1f94391e35bb8289 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 7ff688aceada1160331a789385ea146f62fbddf7 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 05eab8dced6bf4d3009a6eeee16ddac99047dc83 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 579d87ec1e1e85729a6cb2c25961e58beb78640c (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 2e6dd889c325abf23821e1459c3ffef59b7f0009 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to d16f089bd700f45d720ce989d5495e1dc3be0cf8 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 8c9fcc6c33950d3db551af664d1fd3d998bfee56 (excl.)
  • affected from c2ac667358708d7cce64c78f58af6adf4c1e848b to 3f118c8217c109fd13ca61caa301d72c483897ef (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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