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TI-2024-37531 Aliases CVE-2024-56646GHSA-ghqp-926m-7jrx

ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()

Priority LOW 24CWE-476Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-476.

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route() syzbot found a NULL deref [1] in modify_prefix_route(), caused by one fib6_info without a fib6_table pointer set. This can happen for net->ipv6.fib6_null_entry [1] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5837 Comm: syz-executor888 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-09567-g7eef7e306d3c #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xe4/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089 Code: 08 84 d2 0f 85 15 14 00 00 44 8b 0d ca 98 f5 0e 45 85 c9 0f 84 b4 0e 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 96 2c 00 00 49 8b 04 24 48 3d a0 07 7f 93 0f 84 RSP: 0018:ffffc900035d7268 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 1ffff920006bae5f RDI: 0000000000000030 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffffff90608e17 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000030 R13: ffff888036334880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000555579e90380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007ffc59cc4278 CR3: 0000000072b54000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:126 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x33/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline] modify_prefix_route+0x30b/0x8b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4831 inet6_addr_modify net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4923 [inline] inet6_rtm_newaddr+0x12c7/0x1ab0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5055 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c7/0xea0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6920 netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2541 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:726 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2583 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2637 __sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2669 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fd1dcef8b79 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 c1 17 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffc59cc4378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fd1dcef8b79 RDX: 0000000000040040 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00000000000113fd R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000006 R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc59cc438c R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001 </TASK>

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00215 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Linux (Linux): 6.12.5, 6.13Red Hat: 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
LinuxLinux6.9 and later6.12.5, 6.13Patch availableCNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 6.9 and later Fixed in 6.12.5, 6.13 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*6.9 to before 6.12.5VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*6.13 rc1VulnerableLinux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.9 to before 6.12.5 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.13 rc1 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.12.5, 6.13

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Not affected: 2 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-56646
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ghqp-926m-7jrx

References

Patch 2

Other 1

  • TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
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Sources

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