Last updated 25 March 2026

Accessibility. A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.

========== 1. Null-ptr-deref in xfrmupdateaeparams() ==========

[require privilege]: CAPNETADMIN

[effects]: local DoS

[crash stack]: [ 47.933119] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 47.933119] #PF: errorcode(0x0002) - not-present page [ 47.933119] PGD 8253067 P4D 8253067 PUD 8e0e067 PMD 0 [ 47.933119] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 47.933119] CPU: 0 PID: 98 Comm: poc.npd Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-00072-gdad9774deaf1 #8 [ 47.933119] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.o4 [ 47.933119] RIP: 0010:memcpyorig+0xad/0x140 [ 47.933119] Code: e8 4c 89 5f e0 48 8d 7f e0 73 d2 83 c2 20 48 29 d6 48 29 d7 83 fa 10 72 34 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 c [ 47.933119] RSP: 0018:ffff888008f57658 EFLAGS: 00000202 [ 47.933119] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888008bd0000 RCX: ffffffff8238e571 [ 47.933119] RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff888007f64844 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888008f57818 [ 47.933119] R13: ffff888007f64aa4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] FS: 00000000014013c0(0000) GS:ffff88806d600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 47.933119] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000054d8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 47.933119] Call Trace: [ 47.933119] <TASK> [ 47.933119] ? die+0x1f/0x70 [ 47.933119] ? pagefaultoops+0x1e8/0x500 [ 47.933119] ? pfxisprefetch.constprop.0+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? pfxpagefaultoops+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? rawspinunlockirqrestore+0x11/0x40 [ 47.933119] ? fixupexception+0x36/0x460 [ 47.933119] ? rawspinunlockirqrestore+0x11/0x40 [ 47.933119] ? excpagefault+0x5e/0xc0 [ 47.933119] ? asmexcpagefault+0x26/0x30 [ 47.933119] ? xfrmupdateaeparams+0xd1/0x260 [ 47.933119] ? memcpyorig+0xad/0x140 [ 47.933119] ? pfxrawspinlockbh+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] xfrmupdateaeparams+0xe7/0x260 [ 47.933119] xfrmnewae+0x298/0x4e0 [ 47.933119] ? pfxxfrmnewae+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] xfrmuserrcvmsg+0x25a/0x410 [ 47.933119] ? pfxxfrmuserrcvmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? allocskb+0xcf/0x210 [ 47.933119] ? stacktracesave+0x90/0xd0 [ 47.933119] ? filterirqstacks+0x1c/0x70 [ 47.933119] ? stackdepotsave+0x39/0x4e0 [ 47.933119] ? kasanslabfree+0x10a/0x190 [ 47.933119] ? kmemcachefree+0x9c/0x340 [ 47.933119] ? netlinkrecvmsg+0x23c/0x660 [ 47.933119] ? sockrecvmsg+0xeb/0xf0 [ 47.933119] ? sysrecvfrom+0x13c/0x1f0 [ 47.933119] ? x64sysrecvfrom+0x71/0x90 [ 47.933119] ? dosyscall64+0x3f/0x90 [ 47.933119] ? entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 47.933119] ? copyout+0x3e/0x50 [ 47.933119] netlinkrcvskb+0xd6/0x210 [ 47.933119] ? pfxxfrmuserrcvmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? pfxnetlinkrcvskb+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? pfxsockhasperm+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? mutexlock+0x8d/0xe0 [ 47.933119] ? pfxmutexlock+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] xfrmnetlinkrcv+0x44/0x50 [ 47.933119] netlinkunicast+0x36f/0x4c0 [ 47.933119] ? pfxnetlinkunicast+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? netlinkrecvmsg+0x500/0x660 [ 47.933119] netlinksendmsg+0x3b7/0x700 [ 47.933119] ? pfxnetlinksendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? updateloadavg+0x591/0xab0 [ 47.933119] ? pfxnetlinksendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] socksendmsg+0xde/0xe0 [ 47.933119] syssendto+0x18d/0x230 [ 47.933119] ? pfxsyssendto+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? rbinsertcolor+0x1c0/0x280 [ 47.933119] ? timerqueueadd+0x128/0x150 [ 47.933119] ? ktimeget+0x49/0xb0 [ 47.933119] ? pfxnativeapicmemwrite+0x10/0x10 [ 47.933119] ? lapicnextevent+0x35/0x40 [ 47.933119] ? clockeventsprogramevent+0xdf/0x140 [ 47.933119] ? hrtimerinterrupt+0x321/0x360 [ 47.933119] x64syssendto+0x71/0x90 [ 47.933119] dosyscall64+0x3f/0x90 [ 47.933119] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 47.933119] RIP: 0033:0x44b8aa [ 47.933119] Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b9 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 9 [ 47.933119] RSP: 002b:00007fff7ded8258 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIGRAX: 000000000000002c [ 47.933119] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fff7ded9688 RCX: 000000000044b8aa [ 47.933119] RDX: 00000000000002a8 RSI: 00007fff7ded8480 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 47.933119] RBP: 00007fff7ded82c0 R08: 00007fff7ded829c R09: 000000000000000c [ 47.933119] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 47.933119] R13: 00007fff7ded9678 R14: 00000000004c37d0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 47.933119] </TASK> [ 47.933119] Modules linked in: [ 47.933119] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 47.933119] RIP: 0010:memcpyorig+0xad/0x140 [ 47.933119] Code: e8 4c 89 5f e0 48 8d 7f e0 73 d2 83 c2 20 48 29 d6 48 29 d7 83 fa 10 72 34 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 c [ 47.933119] RSP: 0018:ffff888008f57658 EFLAGS: 00000202 [ 47.933119] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888008bd0000 RCX: ffffffff8238e571 [ 47.933119] RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff888007f64844 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888008f57818 [ 47.933119] R13: ffff888007f64aa4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] FS: 00000000014013c0(0000) GS:ffff88806d600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 47.933119] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 47.933119] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000054d8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 47.933119] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt [ 47.933119] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 47.933119] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt ]---

[buggy commit]: d8647b79c3b7 ("xfrm: Add user interface for esn and big anti-replay windows")

[root cause]: x->replayesn and x->preplayesn should be allocated at xfrmallocreplaystateesn(...) in xfrmstateconstruct(..), and then the xfrmupdateaeparams(...) is okay to update them. However, the current implementation allows a malicious user to directly dereference the pointer and crash the kernel like above.

[PoC code]: see attachment poc1.c. I have tested it in ubuntu 22.04 and latest Linux with QEMU.

[suggest fix]: Add NULL check in xfrmupdateaeparams() like below:

@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ static void xfrmupdateaeparams(struct xfrmstate x, struct nlattr attrs, struct nlattr rt = attrs[XFRMAREPLAYTHRESH]; struct nlattr mt = attrs[XFRMAMTIMERTHRESH];

- if (re) { + if (re && x->replayesn && x->preplayesn) { struct xfrmreplaystateesn replayesn;

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