# 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-2026-23270"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:54:43.803Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:40.580Z"
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-2026-23270"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23270.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23270"
title: "net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks\n\nAs Paolo said earlier [1]:\n\n\"Since the blamed commit below, classify can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while\nthe current skb being held by the defragmentation engine. As reported by\nGangMin Kim, if such packet is that may cause a UaF when the defrag engine\nlater on tries to tuch again such packet.\"\n\nact_ct was never meant to be used in the egress path, however some users\nare attaching it to egress today [2]. Attempting to reach a middle\nground, we noticed that, while most qdiscs are not handling\nTC_ACT_CONSUMED, clsact/ingress qdiscs are. With that in mind, we\naddress the issue by only allowing act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress\nqdiscs and shared blocks. That way it's still possible to attach act_ct to\negress (albeit only with clsact).\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/674b8cbfc385c6f37fb29a1de08d8fe5c2b0fbee.1771321118.git.pabeni@redhat.com/\n[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cc6bfb4a-4a2b-42d8-b9ce-7ef6644fb22b@ovn.org/"
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