Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-72435

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.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions b57b2d1fa53fe8563bdfc66a33b844463b9af285, 4.2, 0

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