Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 27, 2026· Updated Aug 3, 2026
CVE-2026-45897
CVE-2026-45897
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_counter: serialize reset with spinlock
Add a global static spinlock to serialize counter fetch+reset operations, preventing concurrent dump-and-reset from underrunning values.
The lock is taken before fetching the total so that two parallel resets cannot both read the same counter values and then both subtract them.
A global lock is used for simplicity since resets are infrequent. If this becomes a bottleneck, it can be replaced with a per-net lock later.
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Affected products
9- osv-coords7 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.18-bootcpkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.18-bootc-boot-installedpkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.18pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.18-bootcpkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.18-bootc-boot-installedpkg:linux/kernel
< 6.18.44-r0+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.44-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.44-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.38-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.42-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.42-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.38-r2
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.7.0, < 6.12.101
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