# 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-2026-43060"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-05T15:17:26.393Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:11.915Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43060"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43060.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43060"
title: "netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal\n\nPackets sitting in nfqueue might hold a reference to:\n\n- templates that specify the conntrack zone, because a percpu area is\n  used and module removal is possible.\n- conntrack timeout policies and helper, where object removal leave\n  a stale reference.\n\nSince these objects can just go away, drop enqueued packets to avoid\nstale reference to them.\n\nIf there is a need for finer grain removal, this logic can be revisited\nto make selective packet drop upon dependencies."
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