# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23139"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-14T15:22:24.059Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:20:21.709Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23139"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23139.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23139"
title: "netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed\n\nCurrently last_gc is being updated everytime a new connection is\ntracked, that means that it is updated even if a GC wasn't performed.\nWith a sufficiently high packet rate, it is possible to always bypass\nthe GC, causing the list to grow infinitely.\n\nUpdate the last_gc value only when a GC has been actually performed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f106694733c66a48740c25bc4e212e9b2ea364ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c7c71113ed6d3e2f3aca4c088f22283016ff34f"},{"version":"be69850b461e7b491d87a22e33ab76fdd04b725e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4cde57c8affdcca5bcff53a1047e15d268bdca1"},{"version":"d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f45588993d7f115280fc726119ca86fba32a811"},{"version":"d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cd717359e56f82f06cbf8279b47a7d79880c6f3"},{"version":"d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26a82dce2beee39c43c109d9647e16f49cb02a35"},{"version":"d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bdafdf4900040a81422056cabe5e00a37bd101a"},{"version":"d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7811ba452402d58628e68faedf38745b3d485e3c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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