CVE-2021-47312 Information

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)

Reference

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