Bug 2348596 (CVE-2025-21759) - CVE-2025-21759 kernel: ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()
Summary: CVE-2025-21759 kernel: ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21759
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-02-27 03:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-31 22:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 03:04:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()

igmp6_send() can be called without RTNL or RCU being held.

Extend RCU protection so that we can safely fetch the net pointer
and avoid a potential UAF.

Note that we no longer can use sock_alloc_send_skb() because
ipv6.igmp_sk uses GFP_KERNEL allocations which can sleep.

Instead use alloc_skb() and charge the net->ipv6.igmp_sk
socket under RCU protection.


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