ACK: [Lunar, OEM-6.1, OEM-6.0, Kinetic, OEM-5.17, Jammy, Focal 0/1] CVE-2023-32233

[Ian May]

Acked-by: Ian May <ian.may at canonical.com>

On 2023-05-10 16:27:38 , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> On systems where user namespaces can be created by unprivileged users,
> which is the default configuration on Ubuntu, unprivileged users can
> trigger a use-after-free vulnerability on netfilter. This could be used to
> crash the system or elevate privileges.
> 
> [Test case]
> A PoC that crashes the system was tested and the fix has been shown to
> prevent it.
> 
> [Backport]
> The fix applies cleanly all the way back to 5.4 kernels. A backport to 4.15
> is in the works.
> 
> [Potential impact]
> netfilter users may find regressions when manipulating nftables.
> 
> Pablo Neira Ayuso (1):
>   netfilter: nf_tables: deactivate anonymous set from preparation phase
> 
>  include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h |  1 +
>  net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c     | 12 ++++++++++++
>  net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c        |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/nft_lookup.c        |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/nft_objref.c        |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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