Bug 2426032 (CVE-2023-54265)

Summary: CVE-2023-54265 kernel: ipv6: Fix an uninit variable access bug in __ip6_make_skb()
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A flaw was identified in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 networking code in the function __ip6_make_skb(). Under certain conditions—such as when using raw IPv6 sockets and processing ICMPv6 headers—the code may access an uninitialized variable because the expected header data is not guaranteed to reside in the linear portion of the socket buffer (skb). This can lead to unpredictable behavior, including potential kernel instability or crash
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:03:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: Fix an uninit variable access bug in __ip6_make_skb()

Syzbot reported a bug as following:

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in arch_atomic64_inc arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:88 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in arch_atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:161 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1429 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ip6_make_skb+0x2f37/0x30f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1956
 arch_atomic64_inc arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:88 [inline]
 arch_atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:161 [inline]
 atomic_long_inc include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1429 [inline]
 __ip6_make_skb+0x2f37/0x30f0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1956
 ip6_finish_skb include/net/ipv6.h:1122 [inline]
 ip6_push_pending_frames+0x10e/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1987
 rawv6_push_pending_frames+0xb12/0xb90 net/ipv6/raw.c:579
 rawv6_sendmsg+0x297e/0x2e60 net/ipv6/raw.c:922
 inet_sendmsg+0x101/0x180 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:827
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa8e/0xe70 net/socket.c:2476
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2530
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2559 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2568 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2566 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x367/0x540 net/socket.c:2566
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:766 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3452 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x71f/0xce0 mm/slub.c:3491
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:967 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x114/0x3b0 mm/slab_common.c:988
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:492 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x3af/0x8f0 net/core/skbuff.c:565
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1270 [inline]
 __ip6_append_data+0x51c1/0x6bb0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1684
 ip6_append_data+0x411/0x580 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1854
 rawv6_sendmsg+0x2882/0x2e60 net/ipv6/raw.c:915
 inet_sendmsg+0x101/0x180 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:827
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa8e/0xe70 net/socket.c:2476
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2530
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2559 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2568 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2566 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x367/0x540 net/socket.c:2566
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

It is because icmp6hdr does not in skb linear region under the scenario
of SOCK_RAW socket. Access icmp6_hdr(skb)->icmp6_type directly will
trigger the uninit variable access bug.

Use a local variable icmp6_type to carry the correct value in different
scenarios.