CVE-2024-36901: kernel: ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

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

ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()

According to syzbot, there is a chance that ip6_dst_idev()
returns NULL in ip6_output(). Most places in IPv6 stack
deal with a NULL idev just fine, but not here.

syzbot reported:

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: 9775 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-syzkaller-00157-g6a30653b604a #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
 RIP: 0010:ip6_output+0x231/0x3f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:237
Code: 3c 1e 00 49 89 df 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 19 58 db f7 48 8b 44 24 20 49 89 45 00 49 89 c5 48 8d 9d e0 05 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 4c 8b 74 24 28 0f 85 61 01 00 00 8b 1b 31 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000927f0d8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 00000000000000bc RBX: 00000000000005e0 RCX: 0000000000040000
RDX: ffffc900131f9000 RSI: 0000000000004f47 RDI: 0000000000004f48
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8a1f0b9a R09: 1ffffffff1f51fad
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f51fae R12: ffff8880293ec8c0
R13: ffff88805d7fc000 R14: 1ffff1100527d91a R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f135c6856c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000080 CR3: 0000000064096000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
  ip6_xmit+0xefe/0x17f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:358
  sctp_v6_xmit+0x9f2/0x13f0 net/sctp/ipv6.c:248
  sctp_packet_transmit+0x26ad/0x2ca0 net/sctp/output.c:653
  sctp_packet_singleton+0x22c/0x320 net/sctp/outqueue.c:783
  sctp_outq_flush_ctrl net/sctp/outqueue.c:914 [inline]
  sctp_outq_flush+0x6d5/0x3e20 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1212
  sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1198 [inline]
  sctp_do_sm+0x59cc/0x60c0 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1169
  sctp_primitive_ASSOCIATE+0x95/0xc0 net/sctp/primitive.c:73
  __sctp_connect+0x9cd/0xe30 net/sctp/socket.c:1234
  sctp_connect net/sctp/socket.c:4819 [inline]
  sctp_inet_connect+0x149/0x1f0 net/sctp/socket.c:4834
  __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2048 [inline]
  __sys_connect+0x2df/0x310 net/socket.c:2065
  __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2075 [inline]
  __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2072 [inline]
  __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2072
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f


Affected upstream versions: 2.6.27
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 5.10.222, 5.15.163, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10, 6.9
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 9df3b2474a627994433a87cbf325a562555b17de