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CVE-2025-39764 Not scored

netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that as the skip hint for dump resumption. AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack dumper, when we do if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use)) to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.

Exploit probability 0.2%
Published September 11, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change July 16, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown
Linux Kernel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

related CGA-7888-PMFP-R5XJ
related OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:03601-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:03633-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:20851-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:20861-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:20870-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:20898-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:3725-1
related SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-39764

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that as the skip hint for dump resumption. AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack dumper, when we do if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use)) to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence