2024-05-24 15:12:58
Linux
PUBLISHED
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled
When we try to add an IPv6 nexthop and IPv6 is not enabled
(!CONFIG_IPV6) well hit a NULL pointer dereference[1] in the error path
of nh_create_ipv6() due to calling ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release. The bug
has been present since the beginning of IPv6 nexthop gateway support.
Commit 1aefd3de7bc6 ("ipv6: Add fib6_nh_init and release to stubs") tells
us that only fib6_nh_init has a dummy stub because fib6_nh_release should
not be called if fib6_nh_init returns an error, but the commit below added
a call to ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in its error path. To fix it return
the dummy stubs -EAFNOSUPPORT error directly without calling
ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in nh_create_ipv6()s error path.
[1]
Output is a bit truncated, but it clearly shows the error.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000000
#PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel modede
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present pagege
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 4 PID: 638 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #446
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffff888109f5b8f0 EFLAGS: 00010286^Ac
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888109f5ba28 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881008a2860
RBP: ffff888109f5b9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888109f5b978 R11: ffff888109f5b948 R12: 00000000ffffff9f
R13: ffff8881008a2a80 R14: ffff8881008a2860 R15: ffff8881008a2840
FS: 00007f98de70f100(0000) GS:ffff88822bf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000100efc000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace: