ACK: [SRU][Mantic][Lunar][PATCH 0/2] CVE-2023-5972

Manuel Diewald manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Tue Dec 5 16:31:28 UTC 2023


On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 11:45:25AM -0600, Bethany Jamison wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the nft_inner.c functionality
> of netfilter in the Linux kernel. This issue could allow a local user to
> crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Clean cherry-picks.
> 
> [Test]
> 
> Compile and boot test.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> Issues could occur in netfilter.
> 
> Xingyuan Mo (2):
>   nf_tables: fix NULL pointer dereference in nft_inner_init()
>   nf_tables: fix NULL pointer dereference in nft_expr_inner_parse()
> 
>  net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
>  net/netfilter/nft_inner.c     | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
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Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>

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