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Linux Linux — netfilter: nf_tables: unregister flowtable hooks on netns exit
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0021 11.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux ff4bf2f42a40e7dff28379f085b64df322c70b45 – —
Linux 5.5 – 5.10.198
TIMELINE
Aug 21 Reserved by Linux
Aug 22 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2022-48935 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: unregister flowtable hooks on netns exit
Unregister flowtable hooks before they are releases via
nf_tables_flowtable_destroy() otherwise hook core reports UAF.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nf_hook_entries_grow+0x5a7/0x700 net/netfilter/core.c:142 net/netfilter/core.c:142
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880736f7438 by task syz-executor579/3666
CPU: 0 PID: 3666 Comm: syz-executor579 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] lib/dump_stack.c:106
dump_stack_lvl+0x1dc/0x2d8 lib/dump_stack.c:106 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x65/0x380 mm/kasan/report.c:247 mm/kasan/report.c:247
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:433 [inline]
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:433 [inline] mm/kasan/report.c:450
kasan_report+0x19a/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:450 mm/kasan/report.c:450
nf_hook_entries_grow+0x5a7/0x700 net/netfilter/core.c:142 net/netfilter/core.c:142
__nf_register_net_hook+0x27e/0x8d0 net/netfilter/core.c:429 net/netfilter/core.c:429
nf_register_net_hook+0xaa/0x180 net/netfilter/core.c:571 net/netfilter/core.c:571
nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks+0x3c5/0x730 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7232 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7232
nf_tables_newflowtable+0x2022/0x2cf0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7430 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7430
nfnetlink_rcv_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:513 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:634 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:513 [inline] net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:634 [inline] net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652
nfnetlink_rcv+0x10e6/0x2550 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652
__nft_release_hook() calls nft_unregister_flowtable_net_hooks() which
only unregisters the hooks, then after RCU grace period, it is
guaranteed that no packets add new entries to the flowtable (no flow
offload rules and flowtable hooks are reachable from packet path), so it
is safe to call nf_flow_table_free() which cleans up the remaining
entries from the flowtable (both software and hardware) and it unbinds
the flow_block.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| August 21, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 22, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2022-48935 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | ff4bf2f42a40e7dff28379f085b64df322c70b45 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.5 | 5.10.198 |
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