Vulnerability CVE-2021-47312


Published: 2024-05-21

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

netfilter: nf_tables: Fix dereference of null pointer flow

In the case where chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD is false then
nft_flow_rule_create is not called and flow is NULL. The subsequent
error handling execution via label err_destroy_flow_rule will lead
to a null pointer dereference on flow when calling nft_flow_rule_destroy.
Since the error path to err_destroy_flow_rule has to cater for null
and non-null flows, only call nft_flow_rule_destroy if flow is non-null
to fix this issue.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicity null dereference")

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70a5a1950cca02c5cd161bb3846b4d983eed97d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca041f919f13783b0b03894783deee00dbca19a

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