netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init().
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init(). ip6table_nat_table_init() accesses net->gen->ptr[ip6table_nat_net_ops.id], but the function is exposed to user space before the entry is allocated via register_pernet_subsys(). Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419ee6274c5153b89c4393c1946faa4c3cad4f9e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b6df6611b7edb28676c4f63f90c56c30d3e601
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e85b9b6a87be4cb3710082038b677e97f2389003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87dba44e9471b79b255d0736858a897332db9226
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c22921df777de5606f1047b1345b8d22ef1c0b34
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