CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-23139
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed
Currently last_gc is being updated everytime a new connection is
tracked, that means that it is updated even if a GC wasn't performed.
With a sufficiently high packet rate, it is possible to always bypass
the GC, causing the list to grow infinitely.
Update the last_gc value only when a GC has been actually performed.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26a82dce2beee39c43c109d9647e16f49cb02a35
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c7c71113ed6d3e2f3aca4c088f22283016ff34f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cd717359e56f82f06cbf8279b47a7d79880c6f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7811ba452402d58628e68faedf38745b3d485e3c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bdafdf4900040a81422056cabe5e00a37bd101a