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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48687"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-03T14:59:32.099Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:45:00.928Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48687"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48687.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48687"
title: "ipv6: sr: fix out-of-bounds read when setting HMAC data."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: sr: fix out-of-bounds read when setting HMAC data.\n\nThe SRv6 layer allows defining HMAC data that can later be used to sign IPv6\nSegment Routing Headers. This configuration is realised via netlink through\nfour attributes: SEG6_ATTR_HMACKEYID, SEG6_ATTR_SECRET, SEG6_ATTR_SECRETLEN and\nSEG6_ATTR_ALGID. Because the SECRETLEN attribute is decoupled from the actual\nlength of the SECRET attribute, it is possible to provide invalid combinations\n(e.g., secret = \"\", secretlen = 64). This case is not checked in the code and\nwith an appropriately crafted netlink message, an out-of-bounds read of up\nto 64 bytes (max secret length) can occur past the skb end pointer and into\nskb_shared_info:\n\nBreakpoint 1, seg6_genl_sethmac (skb=\u003coptimized out\u003e, info=\u003coptimized out\u003e) at net/ipv6/seg6.c:208\n208\t\tmemcpy(hinfo-\u003esecret, secret, slen);\n(gdb) bt\n #0  seg6_genl_sethmac (skb=\u003coptimized out\u003e, info=\u003coptimized out\u003e) at net/ipv6/seg6.c:208\n #1  0xffffffff81e012e9 in genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (skb=skb@entry=0xffff88800b1f9f00, nlh=nlh@entry=0xffff88800b1b7600,\n    extack=extack@entry=0xffffc90000ba7af0, ops=ops@entry=0xffffc90000ba7a80, hdrlen=4, net=0xffffffff84237580 \u003cinit_net\u003e, family=\u003coptimized out\u003e,\n    family=\u003coptimized out\u003e) at net/netlink/genetlink.c:731\n #2  0xffffffff81e01435 in genl_family_rcv_msg (extack=0xffffc90000ba7af0, nlh=0xffff88800b1b7600, skb=0xffff88800b1f9f00,\n    family=0xffffffff82fef6c0 \u003cseg6_genl_family\u003e) at net/netlink/genetlink.c:775\n #3  genl_rcv_msg (skb=0xffff88800b1f9f00, nlh=0xffff88800b1b7600, extack=0xffffc90000ba7af0) at net/netlink/genetlink.c:792\n #4  0xffffffff81dfffc3 in netlink_rcv_skb (skb=skb@entry=0xffff88800b1f9f00, cb=cb@entry=0xffffffff81e01350 \u003cgenl_rcv_msg\u003e)\n    at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2501\n #5  0xffffffff81e00919 in genl_rcv (skb=0xffff88800b1f9f00) at net/netlink/genetlink.c:803\n #6  0xffffffff81dff6ae in netlink_unicast_kernel (ssk=0xffff888010eec800, skb=0xffff88800b1f9f00, sk=0xffff888004aed000)\n    at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319\n #7  netlink_unicast (ssk=ssk@entry=0xffff888010eec800, skb=skb@entry=0xffff88800b1f9f00, portid=portid@entry=0, nonblock=\u003coptimized out\u003e)\n    at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345\n #8  0xffffffff81dff9a4 in netlink_sendmsg (sock=\u003coptimized out\u003e, msg=0xffffc90000ba7e48, len=\u003coptimized out\u003e) at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921\n...\n(gdb) p/x ((struct sk_buff *)0xffff88800b1f9f00)-\u003ehead + ((struct sk_buff *)0xffff88800b1f9f00)-\u003eend\n$1 = 0xffff88800b1b76c0\n(gdb) p/x secret\n$2 = 0xffff88800b1b76c0\n(gdb) p slen\n$3 = 64 '@'\n\nThe OOB data can then be read back from userspace by dumping HMAC state. This\ncommit fixes this by ensuring SECRETLEN cannot exceed the actual length of\nSECRET."
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