Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-47707ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev()

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() Blamed commit accidentally removed a check for rt->rt6i_idev being NULL, as spotted by syzbot: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 10998 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00208-g625403177711 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024 RIP: 0010:rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:177 [inline] RIP: 0010:rt6_disable_ip+0x33e/0x7e0 net/ipv6/route.c:4914 Code: 41 80 3c 04 00 74 0a e8 90 d0 9b f7 48 8b 7c 24 08 48 8b 07 48 89 44 24 10 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 64 d0 9b f7 48 8b 44 24 18 49 39 06 RSP: 0018:ffffc900047374e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff1100fdf8f33 RCX: dffffc0000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88807efc78c0 RBP: ffffc900047375d0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: fffff520008e6e8c R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520008e6e8c R12: 1ffff1100fdf8f18 R13: ffff88807efc7998 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807efc7930 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020002a80 CR3: 0000000022f62000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> addrconf_ifdown+0x15d/0x1bd0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3856 addrconf_notify+0x3cb/0x1020 notifier_call_chain+0x19f/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:93 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2032 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2046 [inline] unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xd81/0x1c40 net/core/dev.c:11352 unregister_netdevice_many net/core/dev.c:11414 [inline] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x303/0x370 net/core/dev.c:11289 unregister_netdevice include/linux/netdevice.h:3129 [inline] __tun_detach+0x6b9/0x1600 drivers/net/tun.c:685 tun_detach drivers/net/tun.c:701 [inline] tun_chr_close+0x108/0x1b0 drivers/net/tun.c:3510 __fput+0x24a/0x8a0 fs/file_table.c:422 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:228 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline] do_exit+0xa2f/0x27f0 kernel/exit.c:882 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1031 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1042 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1040 [inline] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1040 x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f1acc77def9 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f1acc77decf. RSP: 002b:00007ffeb26fa738 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f1acc77def9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000043 RBP: 00007f1acc7dd508 R08: 00007ffeb26f84d7 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 00007ffeb26fa8e0 </TASK> Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:177 [inline] RIP: 0010:rt6_disable_ip+0x33e/0x7e0 net/ipv6/route.c:4914 Code: 41 80 3c 04 00 74 0a e8 90 d0 9b f7 48 8b 7c 24 08 48 8b 07 48 89 44 24 10 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 64 d0 9b f7 48 8b 44 24 18 49 39 06 RSP: 0018:ffffc900047374e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff1100fdf8f33 RCX: dffffc0000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88807efc78c0 R ---truncated---

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.115-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47707
Debian:13linux6.11.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47707
Debian:14linux6.11.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-135.146UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-135.146USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-54.56UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-54.56USN-7301-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1080.87UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1080.87USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1023.25USN-7311-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1023.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1023.25~22.04.1USN-7311-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1023.25~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1084.93UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1084.93USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1025.30USN-7384-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1025.30UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1USN-7384-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1084.93.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15USN-7468-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1079.88USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1079.88UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1024.26USN-7304-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1024.26UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1024.26~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1024.26~22.04.1USN-7303-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1077.83UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1077.83USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1019.23USN-7304-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1019.23UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1062.70UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1062.70USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1006.8UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1006.8USN-7304-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-57.59~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-57.59~22.04.1USN-7403-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1072.75USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1072.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1022.22USN-7385-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1023.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtime5.15.0-1073.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1075.81USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1075.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1076.81USN-7388-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1076.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-135.146USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-135.146UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-54.56.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-54.56.1USN-7301-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-54.56.1~22.04.1USN-7301-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-54.56.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1074.75USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1074.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1022.25USN-7303-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1022.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1022.25~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1022.25~22.04.2USN-7303-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1022.25.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1022.25.2USN-7303-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1033.33UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1033.33USN-7389-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1021.21USN-7389-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1021.21UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1015.15USN-7310-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1024.24UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1024.24USN-7386-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1077.83USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1077.83UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1020.21UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1020.21USN-7303-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1020.21~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1020.21~22.04.1USN-7303-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1074.77USN-7387-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1074.77UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1019.23UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1019.23USN-7303-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-53.55.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-53.55.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1044.48USN-7390-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1044.48UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47707

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before a61a174280dad99f25a7dee920310885daf2552be332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before 8a8b83016f06805775db099c8377024b6fa5b975e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before e43dd28405e6b9935279996725ee11e6306547a5e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before f2bd9635543ca41533b870f420872819f8331823e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before 0ceb2f2b5c813f932d6e60d3feec5e7e713da783e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before 9a0ddc73be37d19dff1ba08290af34e707d18e50e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before 08409e401622e2896b4313be9f781bde8a2a6a53e332bc67cf5e5e5b71a1aec9750d0791aac65183 – before 04ccecfa959d3b9ae7348780d8e379c6486176ac
Linux Linux 4.3

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