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However, the current\nimplementation of xfrm_new_ae(...) allows a malicious user to directly\ndereference a NULL pointer and crash the kernel like below.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPGD 8253067 P4D 8253067 PUD 8e0e067 PMD 0\nOops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 98 Comm: poc.npd Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-00072-gdad9774deaf1 #8\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.o4\nRIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xad/0x140\nCode: e8 4c 89 5f e0 48 8d 7f e0 73 d2 83 c2 20 48 29 d6 48 29 d7 83 fa 10 72 34 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 c\nRSP: 0018:ffff888008f57658 EFLAGS: 00000202\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888008bd0000 RCX: ffffffff8238e571\nRDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff888007f64844 RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888008f57818\nR13: ffff888007f64aa4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 00000000014013c0(0000) GS:ffff88806d600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000054d8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \n ? __die+0x1f/0x70\n ? page_fault_oops+0x1e8/0x500\n ? __pfx_is_prefetch.constprop.0+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_page_fault_oops+0x10/0x10\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x40\n ? fixup_exception+0x36/0x460\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x40\n ? exc_page_fault+0x5e/0xc0\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n ? xfrm_update_ae_params+0xd1/0x260\n ? memcpy_orig+0xad/0x140\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_bh+0x10/0x10\n xfrm_update_ae_params+0xe7/0x260\n xfrm_new_ae+0x298/0x4e0\n ? __pfx_xfrm_new_ae+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_xfrm_new_ae+0x10/0x10\n xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x25a/0x410\n ? __pfx_xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n ? __alloc_skb+0xcf/0x210\n ? stack_trace_save+0x90/0xd0\n ? filter_irq_stacks+0x1c/0x70\n ? __stack_depot_save+0x39/0x4e0\n ? __kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x190\n ? kmem_cache_free+0x9c/0x340\n ? netlink_recvmsg+0x23c/0x660\n ? sock_recvmsg+0xeb/0xf0\n ? __sys_recvfrom+0x13c/0x1f0\n ? __x64_sys_recvfrom+0x71/0x90\n ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n ? copyout+0x3e/0x50\n netlink_rcv_skb+0xd6/0x210\n ? __pfx_xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_netlink_rcv_skb+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_sock_has_perm+0x10/0x10\n ? mutex_lock+0x8d/0xe0\n ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10\n xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x44/0x50\n netlink_unicast+0x36f/0x4c0\n ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10\n ? netlink_recvmsg+0x500/0x660\n netlink_sendmsg+0x3b7/0x700\n\nThis Null-ptr-deref bug is assigned CVE-2023-3772. And this commit\nadds additional NULL check in xfrm_update_ae_params to fix the NPD.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "ed1cba039309c80b49719fcff3e3d7cdddb73d96" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "44f69c96f8a147413c23c68cda4d6fb5e23137cd" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "8046beb890ebc83c5820188c650073e1c6066e67" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "bd30aa9c7febb6e709670cd5154194189ca3b7b5" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "075448a2eb753f813fe873cfa52853e9fef8eedb" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "87b655f4936b6fc01f3658aa88a22c923b379ebd" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "53df4be4f5221e90dc7aa9ce745a9a21bb7024f4" }, { "version": "d8647b79c3b7e223ac051439d165bc8e7bbb832f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "00374d9b6d9f932802b55181be9831aa948e5b7c" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "2.6.39", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "2.6.39" }, { "version": "4.14.324", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.14.*" }, { "version": "4.19.293", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.19.*" }, { "version": "5.4.255", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*" }, { "version": "5.10.192", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*" }, { "version": "5.15.128", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*" }, { "version": "6.1.47", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*" }, { "version": "6.4.12", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.4.*" }, { "version": "6.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }