Bug 2373320 (CVE-2025-38006)

Summary:	CVE-2025-38006 kernel: net: mctp: Don't access ifa_index when missing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 10:01:20 UTC

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

net: mctp: Don't access ifa_index when missing

In mctp_dump_addrinfo, ifa_index can be used to filter interfaces, but
only when the struct ifaddrmsg is provided. Otherwise it will be
comparing to uninitialised memory - reproducible in the syzkaller case from
dhcpd, or busybox "ip addr show".

The kernel MCTP implementation has always filtered by ifa_index, so
existing userspace programs expecting to dump MCTP addresses must
already be passing a valid ifa_index value (either 0 or a real index).

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128
 mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128
 rtnl_dump_all+0x3ec/0x5b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4380
 rtnl_dumpit+0xd5/0x2f0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6824
 netlink_dump+0x97b/0x1690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2309

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-21 05:36:19 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061841-CVE-2025-38006-5478@gregkh/T