In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6tablenattableinit(). ip6tablenattableinit() accesses net->gen->ptr[ip6tablenatnetops.id], but the function is exposed to user space before the entry is allocated via registerpernetsubsys(). Let's call registerpernetsubsys() before xtregister_template().