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CVE-2026-53269

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2026-06-25 Modified: 2026-07-08

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: synproxy: add mutex to guard hook reference counting As the synproxy infrastructure register netfilter hooks on-demand when a user adds the first iptables target or nftables expression, if done concurrently they can race each other. Introduce a mutex to serialize the refcount control blocks access from both frontends. While a per namespace mutex might be more efficient, it is not needed for target/expression like SYNPROXY.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References