CVE-2026-72435

CVE-2026-72435

High · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer()

Sashiko pointed out that kfree_rcu() was called before

rcu_assign_pointer() in handling the comment extension.

Fix the order so that rcu_assign_pointer() called first.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00169 · 5.9th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:22Z
References (8)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca9982a8882470aa0ac4e8bb9a552b181d1efcd · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b70f56f3baaff46599f59b2d93fa2540120776 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e98407cb94e035bba98956adc9096a76d8b2a9f · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8087bb360a936a6314d22b567e4b861656943eb6 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a775fd67f3ef34949a9523bfa69403ee74efdd · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9787d7c24ffd83019f379455e1b97fb4f0f75eb · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01b4b471f0fc5c396af62845e972ccf99cee29a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcb565966534909377a16be5f7b065db2e25c8b5 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:56Z
    netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer()
    cvelistv5