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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-52970

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 6/24/2026 1:17:07 PM

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

netfilter: nft_ct: fix missing expect put in obj eval

nft_ct_expect_obj_eval() allocates an expectation and may call
nf_ct_expect_related(), but never drops its local reference.

Add nf_ct_expect_put(exp) before return to balance allocation.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19f94b6fee75b3ef7fbc06f3745b9a771a8a19a4
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dced0725e2fae3ac3416274db20a7ff5a46931d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26ab32ec73941871c97562ee1f39587950dc3b68
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aef1b13d5c0285f340512c6c07eb858fd018fd8
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b96242ceedfe249f158419f3254bcee04173ffe
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84c422cea5a45fe56be839f25880f21fd33940cd
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdb9a25dd3416d427e8b2753210f8baf44207577
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecca618e1e339494911090474ed87742c0f73976
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