CVE: CVE-2024-42270
Published: 2024-08-17
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().

We had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref
at boot time. [0]

The problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space
before the kernel fully initialises netns.

In the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()
that accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available
only after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.

Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().

[0]:
bpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702
Started bpfilter
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: [PII_REDACTED]
 PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
RIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat
Code: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 dc 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 <48> 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c
RSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffffffffc04201c0
RBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
FS:  00007f[PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: [PII_REDACTED] CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]7706e0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)
 ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)
 ? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)
 ? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)
 ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)
 ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1518)
 ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)
 ? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat
 xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)
 xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287)
 get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)
 ? security_capable (security/security.c:809 (discriminator 13))
 ? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)
 ? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)
 ? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter
 nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116)
 ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827)
 __sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327)
 __x64_sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339)
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81)
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
RIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee
Code: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09
RSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 R09:[PII_REDACTED]ffa2a0
R10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2
R13: 00007f6284
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08ed888b69a22647153fe2bec55b7cd0a46102cc; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5830aa863981d43560748aa93589c0695191d95d; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70014b73d7539fcbb6b4ff5f37368d7241d8e626