# 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-2026-52998"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:10.874Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:12.693Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-52998"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52998.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52998"
title: "netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix potential NULL dereference in ttl check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix potential NULL dereference in ttl check\n\nThe nf_osf_ttl() function accessed skb-\u003edev to perform a local interface\naddress lookup without verifying that the device pointer was valid.\n\nAdditionally, the implementation utilized an in_dev_for_each_ifa_rcu\nloop to match the packet source address against local interface\naddresses. It assumed that packets from the same subnet should not see a\ndecrement on the initial TTL. A packet might appear it is from the same\nsubnet but it actually isn't especially in modern environments with\ncontainers and virtual switching.\n\nRemove the device dereference and interface loop. Replace the logic with\na switch statement that evaluates the TTL according to the ttl_check."
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