# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64079"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:39:52.192Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:43:03.518Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64079"
title: "netfilter: x_tables: allocate hook ops while under mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: x_tables: allocate hook ops while under mutex\n\narp/ip(6)t_register_table() add the table to the per-netns list via\nxt_register_table() before allocating the per-netns hook ops copy\nvia kmemdup_array().  This leaves a window where the table is\nvisible in the list with ops=NULL.\n\nIf the pernet exit happens runs concurrently the pre_exit callback finds\nthe table via xt_find_table() and passes the NULL ops pointer to\nnf_unregister_net_hooks(), causing a NULL dereference:\n\n  general protection fault in nf_unregister_net_hooks+0xbc/0x150\n  RIP: nf_unregister_net_hooks (net/netfilter/core.c:613)\n  Call Trace:\n    ipt_unregister_table_pre_exit\n    iptable_mangle_net_pre_exit\n    ops_pre_exit_list\n    cleanup_net\n\nFix by moving the ops allocation into the xtables core so the table is\nnever in the list without valid ops.  Also ensure the table is no longer\nprocessing packets before its torn down on error unwind.\nnf_register_net_hooks might have published at least one hook; call\nsynchronize_rcu() if there was an error.\n\naudit log register message gets deferred until all operations have\npassed, this avoids need to emit another ureg message in case of\nerror unwinding.\n\nBased on earlier patch by Tristan Madani."
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