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Commit 05561f82 authored by Florent Revest's avatar Florent Revest Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free

commit 6eef7a2b upstream.

If nf_conntrack_init_start() fails (for example due to a
register_nf_conntrack_bpf() failure), the nf_conntrack_helper_fini()
clean-up path frees the nf_ct_helper_hash map.

When built with NF_CONNTRACK=y, further netfilter modules (e.g:
netfilter_conntrack_ftp) can still be loaded and call
nf_conntrack_helpers_register(), independently of whether nf_conntrack
initialized correctly. This accesses the nf_ct_helper_hash dangling
pointer and causes a uaf, possibly leading to random memory corruption.

This patch guards nf_conntrack_helper_register() from accessing a freed
or uninitialized nf_ct_helper_hash pointer and fixes possible
uses-after-free when loading a conntrack module.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 12f7a505

 ("netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent f1453733
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