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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72435

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:17 AM

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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.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca9982a8882470aa0ac4e8bb9a552b181d1efcd
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b70f56f3baaff46599f59b2d93fa2540120776
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e98407cb94e035bba98956adc9096a76d8b2a9f
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8087bb360a936a6314d22b567e4b861656943eb6
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a775fd67f3ef34949a9523bfa69403ee74efdd
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9787d7c24ffd83019f379455e1b97fb4f0f75eb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01b4b471f0fc5c396af62845e972ccf99cee29a
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcb565966534909377a16be5f7b065db2e25c8b5
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