{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2024-40960", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-07-12T12:17:45.594Z", "datePublished": "2024-07-12T12:32:01.939Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-12T11:55:57.590Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T20:23:10.028Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()\n\nsyzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6_probe() [1]\n\nBail out if __in6_dev_get() returns NULL.\n\n[1]\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000658-0x000000000000065f]\nCPU: 1 PID: 22444 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024\n RIP: 0010:rt6_probe net/ipv6/route.c:656 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:find_match+0x8c4/0xf50 net/ipv6/route.c:758\nCode: 14 fd f7 48 8b 85 38 ff ff ff 48 c7 45 b0 00 00 00 00 48 8d b8 5c 06 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 19\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900034af070 EFLAGS: 00010203\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90004521000\nRDX: 00000000000000cb RSI: ffffffff8990d0cd RDI: 000000000000065c\nRBP: ffffc900034af150 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 000000000000000a\nR13: 1ffff92000695e18 R14: ffff8880244a1d20 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 00007f4844a5a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000001b31b27000 CR3: 000000002d42c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \n rt6_nh_find_match+0xfa/0x1a0 net/ipv6/route.c:784\n nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh+0x26d/0x4a0 net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1496\n __find_rr_leaf+0x6e7/0xe00 net/ipv6/route.c:825\n find_rr_leaf net/ipv6/route.c:853 [inline]\n rt6_select net/ipv6/route.c:897 [inline]\n fib6_table_lookup+0x57e/0xa30 net/ipv6/route.c:2195\n ip6_pol_route+0x1cd/0x1150 net/ipv6/route.c:2231\n pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:616 [inline]\n fib6_rule_lookup+0x386/0x720 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:121\n ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2639 [inline]\n ip6_route_output_flags+0x1d0/0x640 net/ipv6/route.c:2651\n ip6_dst_lookup_tail.constprop.0+0x961/0x1760 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1147\n ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x99/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1250\n rawv6_sendmsg+0xdab/0x4340 net/ipv6/raw.c:898\n inet_sendmsg+0x119/0x140 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