Bug 2418890 (CVE-2025-40255) - CVE-2025-40255 kernel: net: core: prevent NULL deref in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()
Summary: CVE-2025-40255 kernel: net: core: prevent NULL deref in generic_hwtstamp_ioct...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40255
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-04 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-10 06:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-04 17:03:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: core: prevent NULL deref in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()

The ethtool tsconfig Netlink path can trigger a null pointer
dereference. A call chain such as:

  tsconfig_prepare_data() ->
  dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib() ->
  vlan_hwtstamp_get() ->
  generic_hwtstamp_get_lower() ->
  generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()

results in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() being called with
kernel_cfg->ifr as NULL.

The generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() function does not expect
a NULL ifr and dereferences it, leading to a system crash.

Fix this by adding a NULL check for kernel_cfg->ifr in
generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower(). If ifr is NULL, return -EINVAL.


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