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HistoryJul 12, 2024 - 12:32 p.m.

CVE-2024-40960 ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()

2024-07-1212:32:01
Linux
github.com
1
ipv6
null dereference
linux kernel
syzbot
general protection fault
kasan
google compute engine

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()

syzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6_probe() [1]

Bail out if __in6_dev_get() returns NULL.

[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000658-0x000000000000065f]
CPU: 1 PID: 22444 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024
RIP: 0010:rt6_probe net/ipv6/route.c:656 [inline]
RIP: 0010:find_match+0x8c4/0xf50 net/ipv6/route.c:758
Code: 14 fd f7 48 8b 85 38 ff ff ff 48 c7 45 b0 00 00 00 00 48 8d b8 5c 06 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 19
RSP: 0018:ffffc900034af070 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90004521000
RDX: 00000000000000cb RSI: ffffffff8990d0cd RDI: 000000000000065c
RBP: ffffc900034af150 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: 1ffff92000695e18 R14: ffff8880244a1d20 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f4844a5a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31b27000 CR3: 000000002d42c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rt6_nh_find_match+0xfa/0x1a0 net/ipv6/route.c:784
nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh+0x26d/0x4a0 net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1496
__find_rr_leaf+0x6e7/0xe00 net/ipv6/route.c:825
find_rr_leaf net/ipv6/route.c:853 [inline]
rt6_select net/ipv6/route.c:897 [inline]
fib6_table_lookup+0x57e/0xa30 net/ipv6/route.c:2195
ip6_pol_route+0x1cd/0x1150 net/ipv6/route.c:2231
pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:616 [inline]
fib6_rule_lookup+0x386/0x720 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:121
ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2639 [inline]
ip6_route_output_flags+0x1d0/0x640 net/ipv6/route.c:2651
ip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x961/0x1760 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1147
ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x99/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1250
rawv6_sendmsg+0xdab/0x4340 net/ipv6/raw.c:898
inet_sendmsg+0x119/0x140 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:853
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
sock_write_iter+0x4b8/0x5c0 net/socket.c:1160
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6b6/0x1140 fs/read_write.c:590
ksys_write+0x1f8/0x260 fs/read_write.c:643
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial