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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97608" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:19.030Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:12.020Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97608" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97608.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97608" title: "netfilter: nf_log: unregister loggers before per-net teardown" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_log: unregister loggers before per-net teardown\n\nnf_log_syslog and nfnetlink_log unregister their per-network namespace\noperations before unregistering their global logger backends. This\nleaves a window where a sysctl or netlink writer can rebind the still-\nregistered logger after the per-net pre-exit callback cleared the old\nselection.\n\nThe race looks like this:\n\n CPU 0 CPU 1\n ---- ----\n unregister_pernet_subsys()\n nf_log_unset(net, logger)\n net-\u003enf.nf_loggers[pf] = NULL\n\n lock nf_log_mutex\n find logger in loggers[][]\n net-\u003enf.nf_loggers[pf] = logger\n unlock nf_log_mutex\n\n nf_log_unregister(logger)\n lock nf_log_mutex\n loggers[pf][type] = NULL\n unlock nf_log_mutex\n synchronize_rcu()\n module exit returns\n module core frees backend memory\n\nLater, a sysctl read or packet logging operation can dereference the\nstale per-net logger pointer.\n\nFix this by unregistering the global logger backends before tearing down\nper-net state. Once the global registrations are gone, later writers can\nno longer rebind the logger. unregister_pernet_subsys() already waits\nfor an RCU grace period after the pre-exit callback clears the per-net\nselection, while nf_log_unregister() continues to cover readers of the\nglobal logger table.\n\nApply this ordering fix to both nf_log backends that combine per-net\nteardown with global logger registration." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51417230716b73f6aa1dc402b3a56d3382a694dc"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0514ca1ee6f2b708d6c602ea946acdfc6a90e24"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90166834b7dc6131aa42b6b14b8b4ed47be97079"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaec35fae8f2052c1878a5c7cc7699d8357d79f2"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64803ba0a05791cf9ca874466480e4c4cadaf7ab"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dce24f3a146948595bb1b86347f31e20b4975daa"},{"version":"5b023fc8d8e0997e0b7ea6506d243afd5478c96e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c018cc4842c33f0c732962e2ab58635e8ae5823"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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