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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74660" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:33.677Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:07.659Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74660" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74660.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74660" title: "netfilter: ebt_nflog: pin the NFLOG backend" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ebt_nflog: pin the NFLOG backend\n\nnf_log_unregister() runs after the per-net teardown so its final RCU\ngrace period also drains readers that obtained the logger from a per-net\nbinding. However, ebt_nflog passes an explicit ULOG log type to\nnf_log_packet() without holding a reference on the selected logger module,\nunlike the xt_NFLOG and nft_log frontends.\n\nAn ebtables nflog rule can therefore remain callable while nfnetlink_log\nis unloaded. The resulting interleaving is:\n\n CPU 0 CPU 1\n nfnetlink_log_fini()\n unregister_pernet_subsys()\n kfree(nfnl_log_pernet(net))\n ebt_nflog_tg()\n nf_log_packet()\n nfulnl_log_packet()\n instance_lookup_get_rcu()\n\nThe global ULOG logger is still registered at this point, so CPU 1\ndereferences the per-net state after CPU 0 has freed it. KASAN reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instance_lookup_get_rcu\n Read of size 8 at addr ff110001052e6210 by task poc/92\n Call Trace:\n instance_lookup_get_rcu+0x1ce/0x1f0 [nfnetlink_log]\n nfulnl_log_packet+0x248/0x2fb0 [nfnetlink_log]\n nf_log_packet+0x204/0x300\n ebt_nflog_tg+0x351/0x550\n ebt_do_table+0xedf/0x22b0\n Allocated by task 90:\n __kmalloc_noprof+0x186/0x470\n ops_init+0x6d/0x420\n register_pernet_operations+0x2f6/0x670\n register_pernet_subsys+0x23/0x40\n Freed by task 93:\n kfree+0x131/0x3c0\n ops_undo_list+0x3e3/0x700\n unregister_pernet_operations+0x232/0x490\n unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30\n nfnetlink_log_fini+0x34/0x450 [nfnetlink_log]\n\nAcquire the ULOG logger module reference when an ebt_nflog rule is\nvalidated and release it when the rule is destroyed. Request the NFLOG\nbackend for legacy callers when needed, matching xt_NFLOG. This prevents\nmodule teardown until all ebt_nflog rules have stopped using the logger." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bcce49d617c593c7606083bfdb464a1761fa68d"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"394d7939c6b2b9e6bea0844c89efb5913168d898"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cac4294f184c9bc19ff82552c62b80498694c39"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d8a94b48b393885e7f876c8ef68ed4da5012078"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6809379a860b9fccbb5435bf08343f6d081ac68d"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47a119ec8a7e2d5c8c4e86fb1a56c4e696e500fb"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2ab7e878bdbe80104c879c31fd2d82a476703b8"},{"version":"c83fa19603bdaeef17b815713dbbe3230c8a34ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30825970339c107bacaf7f61af90fcdb1f597ca1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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