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CVE-2026-23304

ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address"). KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f] RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418) Call Trace: ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318) fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115) ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607) vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437) I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern. And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < d542e2ac7f9e288d49735be0775611547ca4e0eeaffected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < a73fe9f4ae84a239d5b2686f47a58c158aee2eb4affected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < 4a48fe59f29f673a3d042d679f26629a9c3e29d4affected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < 581800298313c9fd75e94985e6d37d21b7e35d34affected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < 3310fc11fc47387d1dd4759b0bc961643ea11c7faffected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < 0b5a7826020706057cc5a9d9009e667027f221eeaffected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < ae88c8256547b63980770a9ea7be73a15900d27eaffected
  • 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d to < 2ffb4f5c2ccb2fa1c049dd11899aee7967deef5aaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.14affected
  • 0 to < 4.14unaffected
  • 5.10.253 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.203 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.167 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.130 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.77 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.17 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.7 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References