Bug 2360269 (CVE-2025-22103) - CVE-2025-22103 kernel: net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv
Summary: CVE-2025-22103 kernel: net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-22103
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: 2025-04-16 15:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-18 03:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:05:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv

When delete l3s ipvlan:

    ip link del link eth0 ipvlan1 type ipvlan mode l3s

This may cause a null pointer dereference:

    Call trace:
     ip_rcv_finish+0x48/0xd0
     ip_rcv+0x5c/0x100
     __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x64/0xb0
     __netif_receive_skb+0x20/0x80
     process_backlog+0xb4/0x204
     napi_poll+0xe8/0x294
     net_rx_action+0xd8/0x22c
     __do_softirq+0x12c/0x354

This is because l3mdev_l3_rcv() visit dev->l3mdev_ops after
ipvlan_l3s_unregister() assign the dev->l3mdev_ops to NULL. The process
like this:

    (CPU1)                     | (CPU2)
    l3mdev_l3_rcv()            |
      check dev->priv_flags:   |
        master = skb->dev;     |
                               |
                               | ipvlan_l3s_unregister()
                               |   set dev->priv_flags
                               |   dev->l3mdev_ops = NULL;
                               |
      visit master->l3mdev_ops |

To avoid this by do not set dev->l3mdev_ops when unregister l3s ipvlan.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 08:23:15 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041621-CVE-2025-22103-b3a2@gregkh/T


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