Bug 2284634 (CVE-2024-36901)

Summary:	CVE-2024-36901 kernel: ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	2284635
Bug Blocks:	2284620

Description Rohit Keshri 2024-06-03 17:23:12 UTC

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

ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-36901 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024053035-CVE-2024-36901-fb16@gregkh/T

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-06-03 17:23:58 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2284635]

Comment 4 Alex 2024-06-09 14:41:03 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-36901 is: 	SKIP	The Fixes patch not applied yet, so unlikely that actual: 778d80be52699596bf70e0eb0761cf5e1e46088d	YES			NO	NO	unknown	 (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 00:37:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7001 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7001

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 02:34:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7000 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7000

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:34:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-03-26 02:12:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:3215 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3215