{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23231 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-23231 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23231 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-23231 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23231 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23231/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23231/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-23231","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23231/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-23231","record":{"aliases":["AZL-78650","BELL-CVE-2026-23231","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23231","GHSA-gxm6-px42-mpjc","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-23231","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-23231","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-23231","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23231","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23231","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23231","USN-8254-3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's nf_tables allows attackers to potentially execute code or escalate privileges via race conditions during chain registration failures.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain()\n\nnf_tables_addchain() publishes the chain to table-\u003echains via\nlist_add_tail_rcu() (in nft_chain_add()) before registering hooks.\nIf nf_tables_register_hook() then fails, the error path calls\nnft_chain_del() (list_del_rcu()) followed by nf_tables_chain_destroy()\nwith no RCU grace period in between.\n\nThis creates two use-after-free conditions:\n\n 1) Control-plane: nf_tables_dump_chains() traverses table-\u003echains\n    under rcu_read_lock(). A concurrent dump can still be walking\n    the chain when the error path frees it.\n\n 2) Packet path: for NFPROTO_INET, nf_register_net_hook() briefly\n    installs the IPv4 hook before IPv6 registration fails.  Packets\n    entering nft_do_chain() via the transient IPv4 hook can still be\n    dereferencing chain-\u003eblob_gen_X when the error path frees the\n    chain.\n\nAdd synchronize_rcu() between nft_chain_del() and the chain destroy\nso that all RCU readers -- both dump threads and in-flight packet\nevaluation -- have finished before the chain is freed.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2026-05-04","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2026-05-04","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"52549","stars":null,"title":"Linux nf_tables 6.19.3 - Local Privilege Escalation"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"netfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain()","id":"CVE-2026-23231","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"Revert \"f2fs: block cache/dio write during f2fs_enable_checkpoint()\"","id":"CVE-2026-23232"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races","id":"CVE-2026-23230"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-03-04","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's nf_tables allows attackers to potentially execute code or escalate privileges via race conditions during chain registration failures.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23231/"}