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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72430"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:46.178Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:14:29.962Z"
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-2026-72430"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72430.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72430"
title: "net/sched: act_ct: fix nf_connlabels leak on two error paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ct: fix nf_connlabels leak on two error paths\n\ntcf_ct_fill_params() calls nf_connlabels_get() (setting put_labels) when\nTCA_CT_LABELS is present, but two later error sites use a bare return\ninstead of \"goto err\", skipping the err: nf_connlabels_put() cleanup.\nThey also precede the \"p-\u003eput_labels = put_labels\" assignment, so the\ntcf_ct_params_free() fallback does not release the count either. Each\nfailed RTM_NEWACTION on these paths leaks one nf_connlabels reference:\nnet-\u003ect.labels_used is incremented and never released. The action is\nreachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN over the netns, i.e. from an unprivileged\nuser namespace on default-userns kernels.\n\nImpact: an unprivileged user with CAP_NET_ADMIN over a network namespace\n(e.g. via user namespaces) leaks one nf_connlabels reference per failed\nRTM_NEWACTION on the two error paths; net-\u003ect.labels_used is never\nreleased.\n\nThe err: label is safe to reach from both sites: p-\u003etmpl is still NULL\nthere (kzalloc'd, not yet assigned) and nf_ct_put(NULL) is a no-op, so\nno inline release is needed."
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