Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel’s net/netfilter/nftablescore.c file, specifically in nftdochain. This flaw may lead to a “use-after-free” condition. This issue requires proper preconditions when handling the ‘return’ statement, as it can cause a kernel information leak issue, which coul...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: A memory leak occurred in the flow rule processing at the commit path. The flow rule object was aborted during release, but the commit path did not handle this issue properly. The code has been updated to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: initialize registers in nftdochain The registers were initialized to prevent a stack leak into the user space...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables: The issue of underflow in the chain reference counter was fixed. The error in adding elements in the set element path causes the reference counter to be decremented twice—once when releasing an element and...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: The netlink notifier might race to release objects. The commit release path is invoked via callrcu, and it runs without locking to release the objects after the rcu grace period. The netlink notifier handler...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Anonymous sets are never used with a timeout flag from the user space; this behavior should be rejected. An exception to this rule is when using NFTSETEVAL, to ensure that legacy metering mechanisms continue ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Fixed a potential data race in nftexprtypeget. The function nftunregisterexpr can occur concurrently with nftexprtypeget. There is no protection when iterating over the nftablesexpressions list in...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.10

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s netfilter:nftables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Adding or removing rules from chain bindings within the same transaction can lead to use-after-free issues. We recommend upgrading to the version after the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Honor the “dormant flag” from the netdev release event path. Check for the “dormant flag” of the table otherwise the netdev release event path attempts to unregister an already unregistered hook...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: flush pending destroy work before exitnet release This issue is similar to 2c9f0293280e “netfilter: nftables: flush pending destroy work before netlink notifier”, and addresses a race between the exitnet...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in the nftdynsetinit function in net/netfilter/nftdynset.c within nftables in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with the CAPNETADMIN user privilege to trigger a denial of service attack...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Unregistering flowtable hooks upon netns exit. Unregistering flowtable hooks before they are released via nftablesflowtabledestroy; otherwise, the hook code may report a Use-After-Free error. BUG: KASAN:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: Fixed an issue where the nftcountersenabled counter might underflow during the nftablesaddchain function. The syzbot reports that the nftcountersenabled counter might underflow at nftablesaddchain1. The issue...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: netfilter: nftables – A possible module reference underflow in the error path. The dst-ops field is set when nftexprclone fails, but the module reference count has not been updated yet. As a result, nftexprdestroy causes a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

A use-after-free vulnerability in the netfilter component of the Linux kernel’s nftables module can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A flaw in the error handling of bound chains causes a use-after-free in the abort path of NFTMSGNEWRULE. This vulnerability requires that...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the netfilter component of the Linux kernel’s nftables module, which can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The nftpipapowalk function does not skip inactive elements during the set walk operation, which can result in double deactivation o...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: fixed a percpu memory leak in nftablesaddchain. It seems that the percpu memory issue related to chain statistics began to occur after the commit 3bc158f8d0330f0a “netfilter: nftables: mapping basechain...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: The commit mutex should not be released during the critical section between nftgcseqBegin and nftgcseqEnd. Otherwise, the async GC worker could collect expired objects and obtain the released commit lock with...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15

A out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 netfilter: nftables: Reject tables of unsupported family. While creating a new netfilter table, the lack of a safeguard against invalid nftables family pf values within the nftablesnewtable function...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables – Do not compare internal table flags during updates. If a table update does not modify the flags, skip the transaction...