5.5

CVE-2026-23286

atm: lec: fix null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs

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

atm: lec: fix null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs

syzkaller reported a null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs().
This issue can be easily reproduced using the syzkaller reproducer.

In the ATM LANE (LAN Emulation) module, the same atm_vcc can be shared by
multiple lec_arp_table entries (e.g., via entry->vcc or entry->recv_vcc).
When the underlying VCC is closed, lec_vcc_close() iterates over all
ARP entries and calls lec_arp_clear_vccs() for each matched entry.

For example, when lec_vcc_close() iterates through the hlists in
priv->lec_arp_empty_ones or other ARP tables:

1. In the first iteration, for the first matched ARP entry sharing the VCC,
lec_arp_clear_vccs() frees the associated vpriv (which is vcc->user_back)
and sets vcc->user_back to NULL.
2. In the second iteration, for the next matched ARP entry sharing the same
VCC, lec_arp_clear_vccs() is called again. It obtains a NULL vpriv from
vcc->user_back (via LEC_VCC_PRIV(vcc)) and then attempts to dereference it
via `vcc->pop = vpriv->old_pop`, leading to a null-ptr-deref crash.

Fix this by adding a null check for vpriv before dereferencing
it. If vpriv is already NULL, it means the VCC has been cleared
by a previous call, so we can safely skip the cleanup and just
clear the entry's vcc/recv_vcc pointers.

The entire cleanup block (including vcc_release_async()) is placed inside
the vpriv guard because a NULL vpriv indicates the VCC has already been
fully released by a prior iteration — repeating the teardown would
redundantly set flags and trigger callbacks on an already-closing socket.

The Fixes tag points to the initial commit because the entry->vcc path has
been vulnerable since the original code. The entry->recv_vcc path was later
added by commit 8d9f73c0ad2f ("atm: fix a memory leak of vcc->user_back")
with the same pattern, and both paths are fixed here.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.12.1 < 5.10.253
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.203
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.167
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.130
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.77
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.17
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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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/e9665986eb127290ceb535bd5d04d7a84265d94f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/622062f24644b4536d3f437e0cf7a8c4bb421665
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d9f57ea29a1f1772373b98a509b44d49fda609e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ea92ab075d809ec8a96669a5ecf00f752057875
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1cfea7921f5c126a441d973690eeba52677b64
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/101bacb303e89dc2e0640ae6a5e0fb97c4eb45bb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30c9744a989feb22cfbb84170eb0e038a7a2c1da
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aff65a82b6389ec674d46e5b3d3ae6f07db5e3e
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