CVE-2021-47452

netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal

published May 22, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal

syzbot reported following (harmless) WARN:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2648 at net/netfilter/core.c:468

nft_netdev_unregister_hooks net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:230 [inline]

nf_tables_unregister_hook include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1090 [inline]

__nft_release_basechain+0x138/0x640 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9524

nft_netdev_event net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:351 [inline]

nf_tables_netdev_event+0x521/0x8a0 net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:382

reproducer:

unshare -n bash -c 'ip link add br0 type bridge; nft add table netdev t ; \

nft add chain netdev t ingress \{ type filter hook ingress device "br0" \

priority 0\; policy drop\; \}'

Problem is that when netns device exit hooks create the UNREGISTER

event, the .pre_exit hook for nf_tables core has already removed the

base hook. Notifier attempts to do this again.

The need to do base hook unregister unconditionally was needed in the past,

because notifier was last stage where reg->dev dereference was safe.

Now that nf_tables does the hook removal in .pre_exit, this isn't

needed anymore.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00196 · 8.8th percentile
Published
2024-05-22T06:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 06:19Z
    netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal
    cvelistv5