5.5

CVE-2025-38192

net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol

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

net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol

A not-so-careful NAT46 BPF program can crash the kernel
if it indiscriminately flips ingress packets from v4 to v6:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
    ip6_rcv_core (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:190:20)
    ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:306:8)
    process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6186:4)
    napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6906:9)
    net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7028:13)
    do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:462:3)
    netif_rx (net/core/dev.c:5326:3)
    dev_loopback_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4015:2)
    ip_mc_finish_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:363:8)
    NF_HOOK (./include/linux/netfilter.h:314:9)
    ip_mc_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:400:5)
    dst_output (./include/net/dst.h:459:9)
    ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:130:9)
    ip_send_skb (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1496:8)
    udp_send_skb (net/ipv4/udp.c:1040:8)
    udp_sendmsg (net/ipv4/udp.c:1328:10)

The output interface has a 4->6 program attached at ingress.
We try to loop the multicast skb back to the sending socket.
Ingress BPF runs as part of netif_rx(), pushes a valid v6 hdr
and changes skb->protocol to v6. We enter ip6_rcv_core which
tries to use skb_dst(). But the dst is still an IPv4 one left
after IPv4 mcast output.

Clear the dst in all BPF helpers which change the protocol.
Try to preserve metadata dsts, those may carry non-routing
metadata.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.8 < 6.6.95
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.35
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.044
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfa4d86e130a09f67607482e988313430e38f6c4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a3ad42a57b43145839f2f233fb562247658a6d9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9994e7b9f7bbb882d13c8191731649249150d21
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba9db6f907ac02215e30128770f85fbd7db2fcf9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98b1d8dc9a3170b2614f1e8c93854e75cdd83980
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a046f183d21ab5ace5a96ece4cf9873a42f003a7