Description

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

ipmr: do not call mr_mfc_uses_dev() for unres entries

syzbot found that calling mr_mfc_uses_dev() for unres entries
would crash [1], because c->mfc_un.res.minvif / c->mfc_un.res.maxvif
alias to "struct sk_buff_head unresolved", which contain two pointers.

This code never worked, lets remove it.

[1]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff5fff2d536613
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xfffefff96a9b3098-0xfffefff96a9b309f]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7321 Comm: syz.0.16 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-syzkaller-g1950a0af2d55 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : mr_mfc_uses_dev net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:290 [inline]
pc : mr_table_dump+0x5a4/0x8b0 net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:334
lr : mr_mfc_uses_dev net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:289 [inline]
lr : mr_table_dump+0x694/0x8b0 net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:334
Call trace:
mr_mfc_uses_dev net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:290 [inline] (P)
mr_table_dump+0x5a4/0x8b0 net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:334 (P)
mr_rtm_dumproute+0x254/0x454 net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c:382
ipmr_rtm_dumproute+0x248/0x4b4 net/ipv4/ipmr.c:2648
rtnl_dump_all+0x2e4/0x4e8 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4327
rtnl_dumpit+0x98/0x1d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6791
netlink_dump+0x4f0/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2317
netlink_recvmsg+0x56c/0xe64 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1973
sock_recvmsg_nosec net...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21719

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.65% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21719
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57177c5f47a8da852f8d76cf6945cf803f8bb9e5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b379b3162ff55a70464c6a934ae9bf0497478a62
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a099834a51ccf9bbba3de86a251b3433539abfde
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26bb7d991f04eeef47dfad23e533834995c26f7a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15a901361ec3fb1c393f91880e1cbf24ec0a88bd

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