ipv6: ensure sane device mtu in tunnels
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 5 fixed, 4 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: ensure sane device mtu in tunnels Another syzbot report [1] with no reproducer hints at a bug in ip6_gre tunnel (dev:ip6gretap0) Since ipv6 mcast code makes sure to read dev->mtu once and applies a sanity check on it (see commit b9b312a7a451 "ipv6: mcast: better catch silly mtu values"), a remaining possibility is that a layer is able to set dev->mtu to an underflowed value (high order bit set). This could happen indeed in ip6gre_tnl_link_config_route(), ip6_tnl_link_config() and ipip6_tunnel_bind_dev() Make sure to sanitize mtu value in a local variable before it is written once on dev->mtu, as lockless readers could catch wrong temporary value. [1] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffff80000b7a2f38 len:40 put:40 head:ffff000149dcf200 data:ffff000149dcf2b0 tail:0xd8 end:0xc0 dev:ip6gretap0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:120 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 10241 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7-syzkaller-18095-gbbed346d5a96 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/30/2022 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116 lr : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116 sp : ffff800020dd3b60 x29: ffff800020dd3b70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff00010df2a800 x26: 00000000000000c0 x25: 00000000000000b0 x24: ffff000149dcf200 x23: 00000000000000c0 x22: 00000000000000d8 x21: ffff80000b7a2f38 x20: ffff00014c2f7800 x19: 0000000000000028 x18: 00000000000001a9 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80000db49158 x15: ffff000113bf1a80 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff000113bf1a80 x11: ff808000081c0d5c x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 73f125dc5c63ba00 x8 : 73f125dc5c63ba00 x7 : ffff800008161d1c x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : ffff0001fefddcd0 x1 : 0000000100000000 x0 : 0000000000000089 Call trace: skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116 skb_over_panic net/core/skbuff.c:125 [inline] skb_put+0xd4/0xdc net/core/skbuff.c:2049 ip6_mc_hdr net/ipv6/mcast.c:1714 [inline] mld_newpack+0x14c/0x270 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1765 add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1851 [inline] add_grec+0xa20/0xae0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1989 mld_send_cr+0x438/0x5a8 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2115 mld_ifc_work+0x38/0x290 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2653 process_one_work+0x2d8/0x504 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x340/0x610 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x12c/0x158 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:860 Code: 91011400 aa0803e1 a90027ea 94373093 (d4210000)
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 4.14.305, 4.19.272, 5.4.231, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7, 6.1
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2023:7077 Released 2023-11-14 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) bpftool-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9 +19
- RHSA-2023:2458 Released 2023-05-09 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) kernel-64k-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 +10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool-7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 +29
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:7077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:7077 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-50816
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p2cq-487q-r77f
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bab6fa449d16af36d9c9518865f783a15f446c7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78297d513157a31fd629626fe4cbb85a7dcbb94a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af51fc23a03f02b0c6df09ab0d60f23794436052
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44affe7ede596f078c4f2f41e0d160266ccda818
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad3f1d9bf162c487d23df684852597961b745cae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccd94bd4939690e24d13e23814bce7ed853a09f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d89d7ff01235f218dad37de84457717f699dee79
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Sources
- CVE-2022-50816 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-50816 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p2cq-487q-r77f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-50816 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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