CVE-2021-47218 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: fix NULL-pointer dereference when hashtab allocation fails

When the hash table slot array allocation fails in hashtab_init() h->size is left initialized with a non-zero value but the h->htable pointer is NULL. This may then cause a NULL pointer dereference since the policydb code relies on the assumption that even after a failed hashtab_init() hashtab_map() and hashtab_destroy() can be safely called on it. Yet these detect an empty hashtab only by looking at the size.

Fix this by making sure that hashtab_init() always leaves behind a valid empty hashtab when the allocation fails.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b17dd53cac769dd13031b0ca34f90cc65e523fab https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c8ab8503adf56bf68dafc7a382f4946c87da79 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc27f3c5d10c58069672215787a96b4fae01818b