{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-07-12T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()",
    "id" : "2297545",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297545"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()\nsyzbot reminds us that in6_dev_get() can return NULL.\nfib6_nh_init()\nip6_validate_gw(  &idev  )\nip6_route_check_nh(  idev  )\n*idev = in6_dev_get(dev); // can be NULL\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000bc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000005e0-0x00000000000005e7]\nCPU: 0 PID: 11237 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00249-gbe27b8965297 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/07/2024\nRIP: 0010:fib6_nh_init+0x640/0x2160 net/ipv6/route.c:3606\nCode: 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 64 24 58 48 8b 44 24 28 4c 8b 74 24 30 48 89 c1 48 89 44 24 28 48 8d 98 e0 05 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 b3 17 00 00 8b 1b 31 ff 89 de e8 b8 8b\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900032775a0 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 00000000000000bc RBX: 00000000000005e0 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffffc90003277a54 RDI: ffff88802b3a08d8\nRBP: ffffc900032778b0 R08: 00000000000002fc R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 00000000000002fc R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802b3a08b8\nR13: 1ffff9200064eec8 R14: ffffc90003277a00 R15: dffffc0000000000\nFS:  00007f940feb06c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000245e8000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\nip6_route_info_create+0x99e/0x12b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3809\nip6_route_add+0x28/0x160 net/ipv6/route.c:3853\nipv6_route_ioctl+0x588/0x870 net/ipv6/route.c:4483\ninet6_ioctl+0x21a/0x280 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:579\nsock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1222\nsock_ioctl+0x629/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1341\nvfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f940f07cea9", "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 routing component, where a NULL dereference occurs in the fib6_nh_init() function, this issue arises when the function attempts to initialize a network interface without verifying its availability, potentially leading to a DoS." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8870",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.27.1.rt7.368.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8856",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5363",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.31.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5363",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.31.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40961\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40961\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024071225-CVE-2024-40961-19bd@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-40961",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}