Linux Kernel up to 6.6.2 ipvlan_route_v6_outbound stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function ipvlan_route_v6_outbound. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-52796. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function ipvlan_route_v6_outbound. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvlan: add ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() helper Inspired by syzbot reports using a stack of multiple ipvlan devices. Reduce stack size needed in ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() by moving the flowi6 struct used for the route lookup in an non inlined helper. ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() needs 120 bytes on the stack, immediately reclaimed. Also make sure ipvlan_process_v4_outbound() is not inlined. We might also have to lower MAX_NEST_DEV, because only syzbot uses setups with more than four stacked devices. BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000e803ff8 (stack is ffffc9000e804000..ffffc9000e808000) stack guard page: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 13442 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.52-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023 RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x4/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:188 Code: 48 01 c6 48 89 c7 e8 db 4e c1 03 31 c0 5d c3 cc 0f 0b eb 02 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff 5d c3 cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 55 48 89 e5 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 a4 01 00 00 48 89 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e804000 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff817e5bf2 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff887c6568 RBP: ffffc9000e804000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff92001d0080c R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff87e6b100 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fd0c55826c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffc9000e803ff8 CR3: 0000000170ef7000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: [] __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31 [] instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:72 [inline] [] _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline] [] cpumask_test_cpu include/linux/cpumask.h:506 [inline] [] cpu_online include/linux/cpumask.h:1092 [inline] [] trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline] [] lock_acquire+0xe2/0x590 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5632 [] rcu_lock_acquire+0x2e/0x40 include/linux/rcupdate.h:306 [] rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:747 [inline] [] ip6_pol_route+0x15d/0x1440 net/ipv6/route.c:2221 [] ip6_pol_route_output+0x50/0x80 net/ipv6/route.c:2606 [] pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:584 [inline] [] fib6_rule_lookup+0x265/0x620 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:116 [] ip6_route_output_flags_noref+0x2d9/0x3a0 net/ipv6/route.c:2638 [] ip6_route_output_flags+0xca/0x340 net/ipv6/route.c:2651 [] ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:100 [inline] [] ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:473 [inline] [] ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:529 [inline] [] ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602 [inline] [] ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xc33/0x1be0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:677 [] ipvlan_start_xmit+0x49/0x100 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:229 [] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4966 [inline] [] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3644 [inline] [] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x320/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660 [] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324 [] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3067 [inline] [] neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:529 [inline] [<f ---truncated---

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-52796. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/24/2025).

Upgrading to version 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13 or 6.6.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 4f7f850611aa/4d2d30f0792b/43b781e7cb5c/1f64cad3ac38/732a67ca4368/8872dc638c24/03cddc4df8c6/18f039428c7d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 4.19.299
• 5.4.261
• 5.10.201
• 5.15.139
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
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• 6.1.22
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• 6.1.24
• 6.1.25
• 6.1.26
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• 6.1.29
• 6.1.30
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• 6.1.33
• 6.1.34
• 6.1.35
• 6.1.36
• 6.1.37
• 6.1.38
• 6.1.39
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• 6.1.56
• 6.1.57
• 6.1.58
• 6.1.59
• 6.1.60
• 6.1.61
• 6.1.62
• 6.1.63
• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.7
• 6.5.8
• 6.5.9
• 6.5.10
• 6.5.11
• 6.5.12
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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