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Message-ID: <2026011359-CVE-2025-68776-5aed@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:29:02 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68776: net/hsr: fix NULL pointer dereference in prp_get_untagged_frame()

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

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

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

net/hsr: fix NULL pointer dereference in prp_get_untagged_frame()

prp_get_untagged_frame() calls __pskb_copy() to create frame->skb_std
but doesn't check if the allocation failed. If __pskb_copy() returns
NULL, skb_clone() is called with a NULL pointer, causing a crash:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5625 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:skb_clone+0xd7/0x3a0 net/core/skbuff.c:2041
Code: 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 23 29 05 f9 49 83 3e 00 0f 85 a0 01 00 00 e8 94 dd 9d f8 48 8d 6b 7e 49 89 ee 49 c1 ee 03 <43> 0f b6 04 26 84 c0 0f 85 d1 01 00 00 44 0f b6 7d 00 41 83 e7 0c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d00f200 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: ffffffff892235a1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88803372a480
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000820 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 000000000000007e R08: ffffffff8f7d0f77 R09: 1ffffffff1efa1ee
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1efa1ef R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000820 R14: 000000000000000f R15: ffff88805144cc00
FS:  0000555557f6d500(0000) GS:ffff88808d72f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555581d35808 CR3: 000000005040e000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 hsr_forward_do net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:-1 [inline]
 hsr_forward_skb+0x1013/0x2860 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:741
 hsr_handle_frame+0x6ce/0xa70 net/hsr/hsr_slave.c:84
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x10b9/0x4380 net/core/dev.c:5966
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6077 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x72/0x380 net/core/dev.c:6192
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6278 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x1cb/0x790 net/core/dev.c:6337
 tun_rx_batched+0x1b9/0x730 drivers/net/tun.c:1485
 tun_get_user+0x2b65/0x3e90 drivers/net/tun.c:1953
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:1999
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0449f8e1ff
Code: 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 f9 92 02 00 48 8b 54 24 18 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 31 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 4c 93 02 00 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7ad94c90 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f044a1e5fa0 RCX: 00007f0449f8e1ff
RDX: 000000000000003e RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 00007ffd7ad94d20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000003e R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f044a1e5fa0 R14: 00007f044a1e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>

Add a NULL check immediately after __pskb_copy() to handle allocation
failures gracefully.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68776 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 3.17 with commit f266a683a4804dc499efc6c2206ef68efed029d0 and fixed in 6.1.160 with commit 7be6d25f4d974e44918ba3a5d58ebb9d36879087
	Issue introduced in 3.17 with commit f266a683a4804dc499efc6c2206ef68efed029d0 and fixed in 6.6.120 with commit 8f289fa12926aae44347ca7d490e216555d8f255
	Issue introduced in 3.17 with commit f266a683a4804dc499efc6c2206ef68efed029d0 and fixed in 6.12.64 with commit 1742974c24a9c1f1fd2e5edca0cbaccb720b397a
	Issue introduced in 3.17 with commit f266a683a4804dc499efc6c2206ef68efed029d0 and fixed in 6.18.3 with commit 6220d38a08f8837575cd8f830928b49a3a5a5095
	Issue introduced in 3.17 with commit f266a683a4804dc499efc6c2206ef68efed029d0 and fixed in 6.19-rc2 with commit 188e0fa5a679570ea35474575e724d8211423d17

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-2025-68776
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/hsr/hsr_forward.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/7be6d25f4d974e44918ba3a5d58ebb9d36879087
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f289fa12926aae44347ca7d490e216555d8f255
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1742974c24a9c1f1fd2e5edca0cbaccb720b397a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6220d38a08f8837575cd8f830928b49a3a5a5095
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/188e0fa5a679570ea35474575e724d8211423d17

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