# 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-2026-53269"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:55.172Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:23:10.609Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53269"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53269.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53269"
title: "netfilter: synproxy: add mutex to guard hook reference counting"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: synproxy: add mutex to guard hook reference counting\n\nAs the synproxy infrastructure register netfilter hooks on-demand when a\nuser adds the first iptables target or nftables expression, if done\nconcurrently they can race each other.\n\nIntroduce a mutex to serialize the refcount control blocks access from\nboth frontends. While a per namespace mutex might be more efficient, it\nis not needed for target/expression like SYNPROXY."
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