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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 6, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()

syzbot found a NULL deref [1] in modify_prefix_route(), caused by one
fib6_info without a fib6_table pointer set.

This can happen for net->ipv6.fib6_null_entry

[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5837 Comm: syz-executor888 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-09567-g7eef7e306d3c #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xe4/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
Code: 08 84 d2 0f 85 15 14 00 00 44 8b 0d ca 98 f5 0e 45 85 c9 0f 84 b4 0e 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 96 2c 00 00 49 8b 04 24 48 3d a0 07 7f 93 0f 84
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035d7268 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 1ffff920006bae5f RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffffff90608e17 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000030
R13: ffff888036334880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000555579e90380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc59cc4278 CR3: 0000000072b54000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849
__raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:126 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x33/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
modify_prefix_route+0x30b/0x8b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4831
inet6_addr_modify net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4923 [inline]
inet6_rtm_newaddr+0x12c7/0x1ab0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5055
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c7/0xea0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6920
netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2541
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347
netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:726 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2583
___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2637
__sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2669
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
RIP: 0033:0x7fd1dcef8b79
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 c1 17 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc59cc4378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fd1dcef8b79
RDX: 0000000000040040 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00000000000113fd R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc59cc438c
R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 6, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56646

GHSA ID

GHSA-ghqp-926m-7jrx

Source code

No known source code

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