# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23231"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-04T12:58:42.029Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:39.463Z"
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-2026-23231"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23231.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23231"
title: "netfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain()\n\nnf_tables_addchain() publishes the chain to table-\u003echains via\nlist_add_tail_rcu() (in nft_chain_add()) before registering hooks.\nIf nf_tables_register_hook() then fails, the error path calls\nnft_chain_del() (list_del_rcu()) followed by nf_tables_chain_destroy()\nwith no RCU grace period in between.\n\nThis creates two use-after-free conditions:\n\n 1) Control-plane: nf_tables_dump_chains() traverses table-\u003echains\n    under rcu_read_lock(). A concurrent dump can still be walking\n    the chain when the error path frees it.\n\n 2) Packet path: for NFPROTO_INET, nf_register_net_hook() briefly\n    installs the IPv4 hook before IPv6 registration fails.  Packets\n    entering nft_do_chain() via the transient IPv4 hook can still be\n    dereferencing chain-\u003eblob_gen_X when the error path frees the\n    chain.\n\nAdd synchronize_rcu() between nft_chain_del() and the chain destroy\nso that all RCU readers -- both dump threads and in-flight packet\nevaluation -- have finished before the chain is freed."
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