CVE-2022-50212

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

netfilter: nf_tables: do not allow CHAIN_ID to refer to another table

When doing lookups for chains on the same batch by using its ID, a chain from a different table can be used. If a rule is added to a table but refers to a chain in a different table, it will be linked to the chain in table2, but would have expressions referring to objects in table1.

Then, when table1 is removed, the rule will not be removed as its linked to a chain in table2. When expressions in the rule are processed or removed, that will lead to a use-after-free.

When looking for chains by ID, use the table that was used for the lookup by name, and only return chains belonging to that same table.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f49613a213d918af790c1276f79da741968de11
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e863f64ee3d0879297e5e53b646e4b91e59620
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91501513016903077f91033fa5d2aa26cac399b2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95f466d22364a33d183509629d0879885b4f547e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e7dcb88ec8e85e4a8ad0ea494ea2f90f32d2583