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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 28, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

netfilter: nf_tables: fix percpu memory leak at nf_tables_addchain()

CVE-2022-48642

Description

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

netfilter: nf_tables: fix percpu memory leak at nf_tables_addchain()

It seems to me that percpu memory for chain stats started leaking since commit 3bc158f8d0330f0a ("netfilter: nf_tables: map basechain priority to hardware priority") when nft_chain_offload_priority() returned an error.

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