CVE-2025-38147

Technical Description

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

calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.

syzkaller reported a null-ptr-deref in txopt_get(). [0]

The offset 0x70 was of struct ipv6_txoptions in struct ipv6_pinfo,

so struct ipv6_pinfo was NULL there.

However, this never happens for IPv6 sockets as inet_sk(sk)->pinet6

is always set in inet6_create(), meaning the socket was not IPv6 one.

The root cause is missing validation in netlbl_conn_setattr().

netlbl_conn_setattr() switches branches based on struct

sockaddr.sa_family, which is passed from userspace. However,

netlbl_conn_setattr() does not check if the address family matches

the socket.

The syzkaller must have called connect() for an IPv6 address on

an IPv4 socket.

We have a proper validation in tcp_v[46]_connect(), but

security_socket_connect() is called in the earlier stage.

Let's copy the validation to netlbl_conn_setattr().

[0]:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

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