Vulnerability CVE-2024-1086


Published: 2024-01-31

Description:
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

The nft_verdict_init() function allows positive values as drop error within the hook verdict, and hence the nf_hook_slow() function can cause a double free vulnerability when NF_DROP is issued with a drop error which resembles NF_ACCEPT.

We recommend upgrading past commit f342de4e2f33e0e39165d8639387aa6c19dff660.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Linux nf_tables 6.19.3 Local Privilege Escalation
Aviral Srivastav...
23.05.2026

Type:

CWE-264

(Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f342de4e2f33e0e39165d8639387aa6c19dff660
https://kernel.dance/f342de4e2f33e0e39165d8639387aa6c19dff660

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