CVE-2026-52970

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description An issue exists in the netfilter module where the nft ct expect obj eval() function allocates an expectation and may call nf ct expect related(), but fails to drop its local reference. This results in a reference imbalance during the allocation process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.