CVE-2024-26626: ipmr: fix kernel panic when forwarding mcast packets

Description

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

ipmr: fix kernel panic when forwarding mcast packets

The stacktrace was:
[ 86.305548] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000092
[ 86.306815] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 86.307717] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 86.308624] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 86.309091] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 86.309883] CPU: 2 PID: 3139 Comm: pimd Tainted: G U 6.8.0-6wind-knet #1
[ 86.311027] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
[ 86.312728] RIP: 0010:ip_mr_forward (/build/work/knet/net/ipv4/ipmr.c:1985)
[ 86.313399] Code: f9 1f 0f 87 85 03 00 00 48 8d 04 5b 48 8d 04 83 49 8d 44 c5 00 48 8b 40 70 48 39 c2 0f 84 d9 00 00 00 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe <80> b8 92 00 00 00 00 0f 84 55 ff ff ff 49 83 47 38 01 45 85 e4 0f
[ 86.316565] RSP: 0018:ffffad21c0583ae0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 86.317497] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 86.318596] RDX: ffff9559cb46c000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 86.319627] RBP: ffffad21c0583b30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 86.320650] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 86.321672] R13: ffff9559c093a000 R14: ffff9559cc00b800 R15: ffff9559c09c1d80
[ 86.322873] FS: 00007f85db661980(0000) GS:ffff955a79d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
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Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26626

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2f1b7fe74afd66298dbb3c7b39e7b62e4df1724
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcaafdba6c6162bb49f1192850bc3bbc3707738c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8c9ae40adda2be1ba41c05fd3cd1e61cce3207
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e622502c310f1069fd9f41cd38210553115f610a

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