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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 19, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 23, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ipv6: Fix infinite recursion in fib6_dump_done().

syzkaller reported infinite recursive calls of fib6_dump_done() during
netlink socket destruction. [1]

From the log, syzkaller sent an AF_UNSPEC RTM_GETROUTE message, and then
the response was generated. The following recvmmsg() resumed the dump
for IPv6, but the first call of inet6_dump_fib() failed at kzalloc() due
to the fault injection. [0]

12:01:34 executing program 3:
r0 = socket$nl_route(0x10, 0x3, 0x0)
sendmsg$nl_route(r0, ... snip ...)
recvmmsg(r0, ... snip ...) (fail_nth: 8)

Here, fib6_dump_done() was set to nlk_sk(sk)->cb.done, and the next call
of inet6_dump_fib() set it to nlk_sk(sk)->cb.args[3]. syzkaller stopped
receiving the response halfway through, and finally netlink_sock_destruct()
called nlk_sk(sk)->cb.done().

fib6_dump_done() calls fib6_dump_end() and nlk_sk(sk)->cb.done() if it
is still not NULL. fib6_dump_end() rewrites nlk_sk(sk)->cb.done() by
nlk_sk(sk)->cb.args[3], but it has the same function, not NULL, calling
itself recursively and hitting the stack guard page.

To avoid the issue, let's set the destructor after kzalloc().

[0]:
FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0
CPU: 1 PID: 432110 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.8.0-12821-g537c2e91d354-dirty #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117)
should_fail_ex (lib/fault-inject.c:52 lib/fault-inject.c:153)
should_failslab (mm/slub.c:3733)
kmalloc_trace (mm/slub.c:3748 mm/slub.c:3827 mm/slub.c:3992)
inet6_dump_fib (./include/linux/slab.h:628 ./include/linux/slab.h:749 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:662)
rtnl_dump_all (net/core/rtnetlink.c:4029)
netlink_dump (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2269)
netlink_recvmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1988)
____sys_recvmsg (net/socket.c:1046 net/socket.c:2801)
___sys_recvmsg (net/socket.c:2846)
do_recvmmsg (net/socket.c:2943)
__x64_sys_recvmmsg (net/socket.c:3041 net/socket.c:3034 net/socket.c:3034)

[1]:
BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at 00000000f2fa9af1 (stack is 00000000b7912430..000000009a436beb)
stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 223719 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted 6.8.0-12821-g537c2e91d354-dirty #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events netlink_sock_destruct_work
RIP: 0010:fib6_dump_done (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:570)
Code: 3c 24 e8 f3 e9 51 fd e9 28 fd ff ff 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 48 89 fd <53> 48 8d 5d 60 e8 b6 4d 07 fd 48 89 da 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d980000 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff84405990 RCX: ffffffff844059d3
RDX: ffff8881028e0000 RSI: ffffffff84405ac2 RDI: ffff88810c02f358
RBP: ffff88810c02f358 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000224 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888007c82c78 R14: ffff888007c82c68 R15: ffff888007c82c68
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811b100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffc9000d97fff8 CR3: 0000000102309002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
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</#DF>

fib6_dump_done (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:572 (discriminator 1))
fib6_dump_done (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:572 (discriminator 1))
...
fib6_dump_done (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:572 (discriminator 1))
fib6_dump_done (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:572 (discriminator 1))
netlink_sock_destruct (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:401)
__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2177 (discriminator 2))
sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2224)
__sk_free (net/core/sock.c:2235)
sk_free (net/core/sock.c:2246)
process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3259)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3329 kernel/workqueue.
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 19, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 19, 2024
Last updated Dec 23, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(0th percentile)

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-35886

GHSA ID

GHSA-hg34-75qr-c9g6

Source code

No known source code

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