CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47515
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block
When an IPv4 packet is received, the ip_rcv_core(...) sets the receiving
interface index into the IPv4 socket control block (v5.16-rc4,
net/ipv4/ip_input.c line 510):
IPCB(skb)->iif = skb->skb_iif;
If that IPv4 packet is meant to be encapsulated in an outer IPv6+SRH
header, the seg6_do_srh_encap(...) performs the required encapsulation.
In this case, the seg6_do_srh_encap function clears the IPv6 socket control
block (v5.16-rc4 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c line 163):
memset(IP6CB(skb), 0, sizeof(*IP6CB(skb)));
The memset(...) was introduced in commit ef489749aae5 ("ipv6: sr: clear
IP6CB(skb) on SRH ip4ip6 encapsulation") a long time ago (2019-01-29).
Since the IPv6 socket control block and the IPv4 socket control block share
the same memory area (skb->cb), the receiving interface index info is lost
(IP6CB(skb)->iif is set to zero).
As a side effect, that condition triggers a NULL pointer dereference if
commit 0857d6f8c759 ("ipv6: When forwarding count rx stats on the orig
netdev") is applied.
To fix that issue, we set the IP6CB(skb)->iif with the index of the
receiving interface once again.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.98 < 4.14.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.20 < 4.19.221)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20.7 < 5.0)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0.1 < 5.4.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.85)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.8)
• linux linux kernel 5.0
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6431e71093f3da586a00c6d931481ffb0dc2db0e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666521b3852d2b2f52d570f9122b1e4b50d96831 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98adb2bbfa407c9290bda299d4c6f7a1c4ebd5e1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68d93354e5bf5191ee673982251864ea24dd5c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b16d412e5f79734033df04e97d7ea2f50a8e9fe3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef8804e47c0a44ae106ead1740408af5ea6c6ee9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6431e71093f3da586a00c6d931481ffb0dc2db0e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666521b3852d2b2f52d570f9122b1e4b50d96831 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98adb2bbfa407c9290bda299d4c6f7a1c4ebd5e1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68d93354e5bf5191ee673982251864ea24dd5c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b16d412e5f79734033df04e97d7ea2f50a8e9fe3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef8804e47c0a44ae106ead1740408af5ea6c6ee9 Patch