CVE-2024-38612

2024-06-1914:15:21

Google

osv.dev

linux kernel

vulnerability

fix

invalid unregister error path

ipv6

seg6_init

seg6_hmac_init

genl_unregister_family

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

JSON

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

ipv6: sr: fix invalid unregister error path

The error path of seg6_init() is wrong in case CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_LWTUNNEL
is not defined. In that case if seg6_hmac_init() fails, the
genl_unregister_family() isn’t called.

This issue exist since commit 46738b1317e1 (“ipv6: sr: add option to control
lwtunnel support”), and commit 5559cea2d5aa (“ipv6: sr: fix possible
use-after-free and null-ptr-deref”) replaced unregister_pernet_subsys()
with genl_unregister_family() in this error path.