Threats tagged 'ghsa-m5gr-96cr-6qvm'

A medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter iptables subsystem could cause a null pointer dereference in the ip6table_nat_table_init() function. This occurs because the function accesses a pointer before the relevant entry is allocated, potentially leading to a denial of service. The issue is fixed by ensuring register_pernet_subsys() is called before xt_register_template().