ACK: [SRU Bionic/Focal 0/1] CVE-2022-34918

Zachary Tahenakos zachary.tahenakos at canonical.com
Fri Jul 15 14:13:27 UTC 2022


Acked-by: Zachary Tahenakos <zachary.tahenakos at canonical.com>

On 7/14/22 5:28 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> An out-of-bounds write when adding a new element to a set on the netfilter
> subsystem in Linux may allow for privilege escalation.
>
> [Test case]
> A reproducer that crashes the system was tested and stopped working with the fix.
>
> [Fix]
> Backport simply applied the same logic to a different place in the code as it was
> moved to its own function on later versions.
>
> [Potential regression]
> nftables/netfilter users would be affected.
>
> Pablo Neira Ayuso (1):
>    netfilter: nf_tables: stricter validation of element data
>
>   net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 9 ++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>



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