vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-36270: kernel: netfilter: tproxy: bail out if IP has been disabled on the device (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 21, 2024
Added
Aug 12, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

netfilter: tproxy: bail out if IP has been disabled on the device

syzbot reports:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
[..]
RIP: 0010:nf_tproxy_laddr4+0xb7/0x340 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tproxy_ipv4.c:62
Call Trace:
nft_tproxy_eval_v4 net/netfilter/nft_tproxy.c:56 [inline]
nft_tproxy_eval+0xa9a/0x1a00 net/netfilter/nft_tproxy.c:168

__in_dev_get_rcu() can return NULL, so check for this.

Solutions

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