netfilter: xt_nat: reject unsupported target families
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: xt_nat: reject unsupported target families
xt_nat SNAT and DNAT target handlers assume IP-family conntrack state
is present and can dereference a NULL pointer when instantiated from an
unsupported family through nft_compat. A bridge-family compat rule can
therefore trigger a NULL-dereference in nf_nat_setup_info().
Reject non-IP families in xt_nat_checkentry() so unsupported targets
cannot be installed. Keep NFPROTO_INET allowed for valid inet NAT
compat users and leave the runtime fast path unchanged.
[ The crash was fixed via
9dbba7e694ec ("netfilter: nft_compat: ebtables emulation must reject non-bridge targets"),
so this patch is no longer critical.
Nevertheless, NAT is only relevant for ipv4/ipv6, so this extra
family check is a good idea in any case. ]
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0afc9ad987c0faa80ab5f8d6e7815085ac8dbb82https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49abe564391411057a26a9a943c8e17867c3b9b4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbc2bac02edabb665beb2aa87ca6f1e1d4c4777https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d1a2240935ea47e2673d0ea17fdb058e4dc91ddhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/679ced28a9dc2f6dc679eb05027d779693e60902https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a842dab87cab29f2a5798a47b2dc5e6a449950bfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e35c048d7511e9d4c2a537b8a231c49606e97c16https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec88fa71c82072e9189983b05b499d3507550271