CVE-2024-40961 (GCVE-0-2024-40961)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:32 – Updated: 2026-10-15 00:46
VLAI
Title
ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init() syzbot reminds us that in6_dev_get() can return NULL. fib6_nh_init() ip6_validate_gw( &idev ) ip6_route_check_nh( idev ) *idev = in6_dev_get(dev); // can be NULL Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000bc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000005e0-0x00000000000005e7] CPU: 0 PID: 11237 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00249-gbe27b8965297 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024 RIP: 0010:fib6_nh_init+0x640/0x2160 net/ipv6/route.c:3606 Code: 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 64 24 58 48 8b 44 24 28 4c 8b 74 24 30 48 89 c1 48 89 44 24 28 48 8d 98 e0 05 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 b3 17 00 00 8b 1b 31 ff 89 de e8 b8 8b RSP: 0018:ffffc900032775a0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 00000000000000bc RBX: 00000000000005e0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffffc90003277a54 RDI: ffff88802b3a08d8 RBP: ffffc900032778b0 R08: 00000000000002fc R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00000000000002fc R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802b3a08b8 R13: 1ffff9200064eec8 R14: ffffc90003277a00 R15: dffffc0000000000 FS: 00007f940feb06c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000245e8000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ip6_route_info_create+0x99e/0x12b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3809 ip6_route_add+0x28/0x160 net/ipv6/route.c:3853 ipv6_route_ioctl+0x588/0x870 net/ipv6/route.c:4483 inet6_ioctl+0x21a/0x280 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:579 sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1222 sock_ioctl+0x629/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1341 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f940f07cea9
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:03 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < 3200ffeec4d59aad5bc9ca75d2c1fae47c0aeade (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < de5ad4d45cd0128a2a37555f48ab69aa19d78adc (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < 4cdfe813015d5a24586bd0a84fa0fa6eb0a1f668 (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < 88b9a55e2e35ea846d41f4efdc29d23345bd1aa4 (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < b6947723c9eabcab58cfb33cdb0a565a6aee6727 (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < ae8d3d39efe366c2198f530e01e4bf07830bf403 (git)
Affected: 428604fb118facce1309670779a35baf27ad044c , < 2eab4543a2204092c3a7af81d7d6c506e59a03a6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.279 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.221 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.162 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.96 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM RST2428P Affected: 0 , < V3.1 (custom)
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Siemens SCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 family Unaffected: 0 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 family Affected: 0 , < V3.1 (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem Affected: 0 , < V1.1.1 (custom)
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