CVE-2024-40959CWE-476

CVE-2024-40959

Medium · published July 12, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()

ip6_dst_idev() can return NULL, xfrm6_get_saddr() must act accordingly.

syzbot reported:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

CPU: 1 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024

Workqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker

RIP: 0010:xfrm6_get_saddr+0x93/0x130 net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:64

Code: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 97 00 00 00 4c 8b ab d8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 86 00 00 00 4d 8b 6d 00 e8 ca 13 47 01 48 b8 00

RSP: 0018:ffffc90000117378 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88807b079dc0 RCX: ffffffff89a0d6d7

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff89a0d6e9 RDI: ffff88807b079e98

RBP: ffff88807ad73248 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: fffffffffffff000

R10: ffff88807b079dc0 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffffc90000117480

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f4586d00440 CR3: 0000000079042000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

xfrm_get_saddr net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2452 [inline]

xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2481 [inline]

xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0xa26/0xf10 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2541

xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0x140/0x2570 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2835

xfrm_bundle_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3070 [inline]

xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0x4d1/0x1e60 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3201

xfrm_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3298 [inline]

xfrm_lookup_route+0x3b/0x200 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3309

ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x15c/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1256

send6+0x611/0xd20 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:139

wg_socket_send_skb_to_peer+0xf9/0x220 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:178

wg_socket_send_buffer_to_peer+0x12b/0x190 drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c:200

wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation+0x227/0x360 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:40

wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x1c/0x30 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51

process_one_work+0x9fb/0x1b60 kernel/workqueue.c:3231

process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline]

worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf70 kernel/workqueue.c:3393

kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389

ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00276 · 18.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-07-12T17:15Z
Affected products (11)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.12, < 4.19.3174.19.317
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2795.4.279
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2215.10.221
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1625.15.162
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.966.1.96
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.366.6.36
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.9.76.9.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (21)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20427b85781aca0ad072851f6907a3d4b2fed8d1 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/600a62b4232ac027f788c3ca395bc2333adeaacf · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c02fb2cc0afee5bb53cddf3f34f045f654ad6a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f30f1f1a51d91e19f5a09236bb0b59e6a07ad08 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71761292d4d002a8eccb57b86792c4e3b3eb3c7 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caf0bec84c62fb1cf6f7c9f0e8c857c87f8adbc3 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d46401052c2d5614da8efea5788532f0401cb164 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f897d7171652fcfc76d042bfec798b010ee89e41 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20427b85781aca0ad072851f6907a3d4b2fed8d1 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/600a62b4232ac027f788c3ca395bc2333adeaacf · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c02fb2cc0afee5bb53cddf3f34f045f654ad6a · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f30f1f1a51d91e19f5a09236bb0b59e6a07ad08 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71761292d4d002a8eccb57b86792c4e3b3eb3c7 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caf0bec84c62fb1cf6f7c9f0e8c857c87f8adbc3 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d46401052c2d5614da8efea5788532f0401cb164 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f897d7171652fcfc76d042bfec798b010ee89e41 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUL 12:32Z
    xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()
    cvelistv5