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High · 7.5 CVE-2024-26834 EUVD-2024-24096GHSA-w6vh-9g8v-hhwg

netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

Published Apr 17, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used

Direct xmit does not use it since it calls dev_queue_xmit() to send
packets, hence it calls dst_release().

kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff88814f440900 (size 184):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294951896
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 60 5b 04 81 88 ff ff 00 e6 e8 82 ff ff ff ff .`[.............
21 0b 50 82 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 !.P.............
backtrace (crc cb2bf5d6):
[<000000003ee17107>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x286/0x340
[<0000000021a5de2c>] dst_alloc+0x43/0xb0
[<00000000f0671159>] rt_dst_alloc+0x2e/0x190
[<00000000fe5092c9>] __mkroute_output+0x244/0x980
[<000000005fb96fb0>] ip_route_output_flow+0xc0/0x160
[<0000000045367433>] nf_ip_route+0xf/0x30
[<0000000085da1d8e>] nf_route+0x2d/0x60
[<00000000d1ecd1cb>] nft_flow_route+0x171/0x6a0 [nft_flow_offload]
[<00000000d9b2fb60>] nft_flow_offload_eval+0x4e8/0x700 [nft_flow_offload]
[<000000009f447dbb>] expr_call_ops_eval+0x53/0x330 [nf_tables]
[<00000000072e1be6>] nft_do_chain+0x17c/0x840 [nf_tables]
[<00000000d0551029>] nft_do_chain_inet+0xa1/0x210 [nf_tables]
[<0000000097c9d5c6>] nf_hook_slow+0x5b/0x160
[<0000000005eccab1>] ip_forward+0x8b6/0x9b0
[<00000000553a269b>] ip_rcv+0x221/0x230
[<00000000412872e5>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xfe/0x110

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.5 6.6.19

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.7.7-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.7.7-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.82-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2002.2 —

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