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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2024-56646 EUVD-2024-53294GHSA-ghqp-926m-7jrx

ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()

Published Dec 27, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()

syzbot found a NULL deref [1] in modify_prefix_route(), caused by one
fib6_info without a fib6_table pointer set.

This can happen for net->ipv6.fib6_null_entry

[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5837 Comm: syz-executor888 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-09567-g7eef7e306d3c #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xe4/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
Code: 08 84 d2 0f 85 15 14 00 00 44 8b 0d ca 98 f5 0e 45 85 c9 0f 84 b4 0e 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 96 2c 00 00 49 8b 04 24 48 3d a0 07 7f 93 0f 84
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035d7268 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 1ffff920006bae5f RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffffff90608e17 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000030
R13: ffff888036334880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000555579e90380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc59cc4278 CR3: 0000000072b54000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849
__raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:126 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x33/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
modify_prefix_route+0x30b/0x8b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4831
inet6_addr_modify net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4923 [inline]
inet6_rtm_newaddr+0x12c7/0x1ab0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5055
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c7/0xea0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6920
netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2541
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347
netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:726 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2583
___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2637
__sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2669
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fd1dcef8b79
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 c1 17 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc59cc4378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fd1dcef8b79
RDX: 0000000000040040 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00000000000113fd R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc59cc438c
R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
</TASK>

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.9 6.12.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.12.5-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.5-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1 USN-7379-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-1011.12~24.04.1 USN-7381-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1017.17 USN-7382-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

Advisories 6

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