linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53343: icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6

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Message-ID: <2025091719-CVE-2023-53343-880b@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:56:42 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53343: icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev().

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev().

With some IPv6 Ext Hdr (RPL, SRv6, etc.), we can send a packet that
has the link-local address as src and dst IP and will be forwarded to
an external IP in the IPv6 Ext Hdr.

For example, the script below generates a packet whose src IP is the
link-local address and dst is updated to 11::.

  # for f in $(find /proc/sys/net/ -name *seg6_enabled*); do echo 1 > $f; done
  # python3
  >>> from socket import *
  >>> from scapy.all import *
  >>>
  >>> SRC_ADDR = DST_ADDR = "fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456"
  >>>
  >>> pkt = IPv6(src=SRC_ADDR, dst=DST_ADDR)
  >>> pkt /= IPv6ExtHdrSegmentRouting(type=4, addresses=["11::", "22::"], segleft=1)
  >>>
  >>> sk = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW)
  >>> sk.sendto(bytes(pkt), (DST_ADDR, 0))

For such a packet, we call ip6_route_input() to look up a route for the
next destination in these three functions depending on the header type.

  * ipv6_rthdr_rcv()
  * ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv()
  * ipv6_srh_rcv()

If no route is found, ip6_null_entry is set to skb, and the following
dst_input(skb) calls ip6_pkt_drop().

Finally, in icmp6_dev(), we dereference skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev->dev
as the input device is the loopback interface.  Then, we have to check if
skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev is NULL or not to avoid NULL pointer deref
for ip6_null_entry.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 157 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.4.0-11996-gb121d614371c #35
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:icmp6_send (net/ipv6/icmp.c:436 net/ipv6/icmp.c:503)
Code: fe ff ff 48 c7 40 30 c0 86 5d 83 e8 c6 44 1c 00 e9 c8 fc ff ff 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe 0f 84 4a fb ff ff 48 8b 80 d0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 88 e0 00 00 00 e9 34 fb ff ff 4d 85 ed 0f 85 69 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003c70 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000000000e0
RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888006d72a18
RBP: ffffc90000003d80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffc90000003d98 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff888006d72a10
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880057fb800 R15: ffffffff835d86c0
FS:  00007f9dc72ee740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000057b2000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ip6_pkt_drop (net/ipv6/route.c:4513)
 ipv6_rthdr_rcv (net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:640 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:686)
 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:437 (discriminator 5))
 ip6_input_finish (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:483)
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:5455)
 process_backlog (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/core/dev.c:5895)
 __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6460)
 net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6529 net/core/dev.c:6660)
 __do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:554)
 do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:454 kernel/softirq.c:441)
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:381)
 __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4231)
 ip6_finish_output2 (./include/net/neighbour.h:544 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:135)
 rawv6_sendmsg (./include/net/dst.h:458 ./include/linux/netfilter.h:303 net/ipv6/raw.c:656 net/ipv6/raw.c:914)
 sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:725 net/socket.c:748)
 __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2134)
 __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2146 net/socket.c:2142 net/socket.c:2142)
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
RIP: 0033:0x7f9dc751baea
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffe98712c38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe98712cf8 RCX: 00007f9dc751baea
RDX: 0000000000000060 RSI: 00007f9dc6460b90 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f9dc56e8be0 R08: 00007ffe98712d70 R09: 000000000000001c
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffffc4653600 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007f9dc6af5d1b
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 0000000000000000
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:icmp6_send (net/ipv6/icmp.c:436 net/ipv6/icmp.c:503)
Code: fe ff ff 48 c7 40 30 c0 86 5d 83 e8 c6 44 1c 00 e9 c8 fc ff ff 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe 0f 84 4a fb ff ff 48 8b 80 d0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 88 e0 00 00 00 e9 34 fb ff ff 4d 85 ed 0f 85 69 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003c70 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000000000e0
RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888006d72a18
RBP: ffffc90000003d80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffc90000003d98 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff888006d72a10
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880057fb800 R15: ffffffff835d86c0
FS:  00007f9dc72ee740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000057b2000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Kernel Offset: disabled

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53343 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 4.19.291 with commit 8803c59fde4dd370a627dfbf7183682fa0cabf70
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 5.4.251 with commit 61b4c4659746959056450b92a5d7e6bc1243b31b
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 5.10.188 with commit d30ddd7ff15df9d91a793ce3f06f0190ff7afacc
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 5.15.121 with commit 3fabca5d9cae0140b6aad09a1c6b9aa57089fbb8
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 6.1.40 with commit 1462e9d9aa52d14665eaca6d89d22c4af44ede04
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 6.4.5 with commit aa657d319e6c7502a4eb85cc0ee80cc81b8e5724
	Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d and fixed in 6.5 with commit 2aaa8a15de73874847d62eb595c6683bface80fd

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53343
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/ipv6/icmp.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8803c59fde4dd370a627dfbf7183682fa0cabf70
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b4c4659746959056450b92a5d7e6bc1243b31b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d30ddd7ff15df9d91a793ce3f06f0190ff7afacc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fabca5d9cae0140b6aad09a1c6b9aa57089fbb8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1462e9d9aa52d14665eaca6d89d22c4af44ede04
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa657d319e6c7502a4eb85cc0ee80cc81b8e5724
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aaa8a15de73874847d62eb595c6683bface80fd