CVE-2021-47515

2024-05-2415:15:12

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

vulnerability resolution

seg6

ipv6

socket control block

ipv4 packet

encapsulation

null pointer

dereference

nvd

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block

When an IPv4 packet is received, the ip_rcv_core(…) sets the receiving
interface index into the IPv4 socket control block (v5.16-rc4,
net/ipv4/ip_input.c line 510):

IPCB(skb)-&gt;iif = skb-&gt;skb_iif;

If that IPv4 packet is meant to be encapsulated in an outer IPv6+SRH
header, the seg6_do_srh_encap(…) performs the required encapsulation.
In this case, the seg6_do_srh_encap function clears the IPv6 socket control
block (v5.16-rc4 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c line 163):

memset(IP6CB(skb), 0, sizeof(*IP6CB(skb)));

The memset(…) was introduced in commit ef489749aae5 (“ipv6: sr: clear
IP6CB(skb) on SRH ip4ip6 encapsulation”) a long time ago (2019-01-29).

Since the IPv6 socket control block and the IPv4 socket control block share
the same memory area (skb->cb), the receiving interface index info is lost
(IP6CB(skb)->iif is set to zero).

As a side effect, that condition triggers a NULL pointer dereference if
commit 0857d6f8c759 (“ipv6: When forwarding count rx stats on the orig
netdev”) is applied.

To fix that issue, we set the IP6CB(skb)->iif with the index of the
receiving interface once again.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.0–4.14.258

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.15.0–4.19.221

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.20.0–5.4.165

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5.0–5.10.85

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.15.8

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0≥

CNA Affected

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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "c630ec8bdada",
        "lessThan": "b16d412e5f79",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "2f704348c93f",
        "lessThan": "6431e71093f3",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ef489749aae5",
        "lessThan": "ef8804e47c0a",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
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        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ef489749aae5",
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        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
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      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.0",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.0",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "4.14.258",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "4.14.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "4.19.221",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "4.19.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.4.165",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.10.85",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.15.8",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.16",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]