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netfilter: conntrack: fix NULL pointer dereference in nf_confirm_cthelper
authorTijs Van Buggenhout <tijs.van.buggenhout@axsguard.com>
Thu, 25 May 2023 10:25:26 +0000 (12:25 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:59:55 +0000 (10:59 +0200)
commit0b705ed9d4036257cf32a74535186c442a0bcb43
tree25495dcfa3b81b0ddb42360697f39ac9ce6c8a63
parentc2c6133eebaf3eb2e16147b856e5bc63f70b48eb
netfilter: conntrack: fix NULL pointer dereference in nf_confirm_cthelper

[ Upstream commit e1f543dc660b44618a1bd72ddb4ca0828a95f7ad ]

An nf_conntrack_helper from nf_conn_help may become NULL after DNAT.

Observed when TCP port 1720 (Q931_PORT), associated with h323 conntrack
helper, is DNAT'ed to another destination port (e.g. 1730), while
nfqueue is being used for final acceptance (e.g. snort).

This happenned after transition from kernel 4.14 to 5.10.161.

Workarounds:
 * keep the same port (1720) in DNAT
 * disable nfqueue
 * disable/unload h323 NAT helper

$ linux-5.10/scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh vmlinux < /tmp/kernel.log
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000084
[..]
RIP: 0010:nf_conntrack_update (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2080 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2134) nf_conntrack
[..]
nfqnl_reinject (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:237) nfnetlink_queue
nfqnl_recv_verdict (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:1230) nfnetlink_queue
nfnetlink_rcv_msg (net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:241) nfnetlink
[..]

Fixes: ee04805ff54a ("netfilter: conntrack: make conntrack userspace helpers work again")
Signed-off-by: Tijs Van Buggenhout <tijs.van.buggenhout@axsguard.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c