netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-22063
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 23 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets When calling netlbl_conn_setattr(), addr->sa_family is used to determine the function behavior. If sk is an IPv4 socket, but the connect function is called with an IPv6 address, the function calipso_sock_setattr() is triggered. Inside this function, the following code is executed: sk_fullsock(__sk) ? inet_sk(__sk)->pinet6 : NULL; Since sk is an IPv4 socket, pinet6 is NULL, leading to a null pointer dereference. This patch fixes the issue by checking if inet6_sk(sk) returns a NULL pointer before accessing pinet6.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < 1ad9166cab6a0f5c0b10344a97bdf749ae11dcbf ; affected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < 1e38f7a6cdd68377f8a4189b2fbaec14a6dd5152 ; affected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < a7e89541d05b98c79a51c0f95df020f8e82b62ed ; affected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < 797e5371cf55463b4530bab3fef5f27f7c6657a8 ; affected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < 1927d0bcd5b81e80971bf6b8eba267508bd1c78b ; affected ceba1832b1b2da0149c51de62a847c00bca1677a < 3ba9cf69de50e8abed32b448616c313baa4c5712
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.8 ; unaffected 0 < 4.8 ; unaffected 5.4.292 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.236 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.180 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.134 ≤ 6.1.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD