[SRU Focal/Jammy 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: initialize registers in nft_do_chain()

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Thu Apr 7 14:19:13 UTC 2022


From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>

Initialize registers to avoid stack leak into userspace.

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 4c905f6740a365464e91467aa50916555b28213d)
CVE-2022-1016
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c
index 866cfba04d6c..907e848dbc17 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ nft_do_chain(struct nft_pktinfo *pkt, void *priv)
 	struct nft_rule *const *rules;
 	const struct nft_rule *rule;
 	const struct nft_expr *expr, *last;
-	struct nft_regs regs;
+	struct nft_regs regs = {};
 	unsigned int stackptr = 0;
 	struct nft_jumpstack jumpstack[NFT_JUMP_STACK_SIZE];
 	bool genbit = READ_ONCE(net->nft.gencursor);
-- 
2.32.0




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