Vulnerability CVE-2021-46913
Published: 2024-02-27

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template

memcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements. Use
nft_expr_clone() to initialize the connlimit expression list, otherwise
connlimit garbage collector crashes when walking on the list head copy.

[ 493.064656] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables]
[ 493.064685] RIP: 0010:find_or_evict+0x5a/0x90 [nf_conncount]
[ 493.064694] Code: 2b 43 40 83 f8 01 77 0d 48 c7 c0 f5 ff ff ff 44 39 63 3c 75 df 83 6d 18 01 48 8b 43 08 48 89 de 48 8b 13 48 8b 3d ee 2f 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 03 48 83
[ 493.064699] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000417dc0 EFLAGS: 00010297
[ 493.064704] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888134f38410 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 493.064708] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888134f38410 RDI: ffff888100060cc0
[ 493.064711] RBP: ffff88812ce594a8 R08: ffff888134f38438 R09: 00000000ebb9025c
[ 493.064714] R10: ffffffff8219f838 R11: 0000000000000017 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 493.064718] R13: ffffffff82146740 R14: ffff888134f38410 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 493.064721] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 493.064725] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 493.064729] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001330aa002 CR4: 00000000001706e0
[ 493.064733] Call Trace:
[ 493.064737] nf_conncount_gc_list+0x8f/0x150 [nf_conncount]
[ 493.064746] nft_rhash_gc+0x106/0x390 [nf_tables]

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e51ff3ffc316377cca21de8b80404eed0c37b3c3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d8de3c226574a3ddb8b87d0c152028d1bafef4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d8f9065830e526c83199186c5f56a6514f457d2
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