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CVE-2026-98321

netfilter: nf_nat: unregister and release hooks on error PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_nat: unregister and release hooks on error If nf_hook_entries_insert_raw() fails, the NAT hooks get never released, resulting in a memleak. Postpone setting nat_proto_net->nat_hook_ops when the hooks are registered to simplify the error path to decide whether the nat hooks need unwinding.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1cd472bf036ca038e783ef5f058f54e45b7e8180 before 79084567cd082fb4482e1ea457580e7d6504dd99; affected 1cd472bf036ca038e783ef5f058f54e45b7e8180 before df80342f4bfc023ad7d6703df5e27f583ff0cb8d; affected 1cd472bf036ca038e783ef5f058f54e45b7e8180 before cbdd39ce42530a193c56beb206a3356cb6d01016
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.18; unaffected 0 before 4.18; unaffected 6.18.54 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.8 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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