CVE-2023-53477

EUVD-2025-32762
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: Add lwtunnel encap size of all siblings in nexthop calculation

In function rt6_nlmsg_size(), the length of nexthop is calculated
by multipling the nexthop length of fib6_info and the number of
siblings. However if the fib6_info has no lwtunnel but the siblings
have lwtunnels, the nexthop length is less than it should be, and
it will trigger a warning in inet6_rt_notify() as follows:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6082 at net/ipv6/route.c:6180 inet6_rt_notify+0x120/0x130
......
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 fib6_add_rt2node+0x685/0xa30
 fib6_add+0x96/0x1b0
 ip6_route_add+0x50/0xd0
 inet6_rtm_newroute+0x97/0xa0
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x156/0x3d0
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x5a/0x110
 netlink_unicast+0x246/0x350
 netlink_sendmsg+0x250/0x4c0
 sock_sendmsg+0x66/0x70
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xd0
 __sys_sendmsg+0x5d/0xb0
 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

This bug can be reproduced by script:

ip -6 addr add 2002::2/64 dev ens2
ip -6 route add 100::/64 via 2002::1 dev ens2 metric 100

for i in 10 20 30 40 50 60 70;
do
	ip link add link ens2 name ipv_$i type ipvlan
	ip -6 addr add 2002::$i/64 dev ipv_$i
	ifconfig ipv_$i up
done

for i in 10 20 30 40 50 60;
do
	ip -6 route append 100::/64 encap ip6 dst 2002::$i via 2002::1
dev ipv_$i metric 100
done

ip -6 route append 100::/64 via 2002::1 dev ipv_70 metric 100

This patch fixes it by adding nexthop_len of every siblings using
rt6_nh_nlmsg_size().
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 4%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
4.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.235
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.173
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.100
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.18
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.2.5
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.153-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
forky
6.16.8-1
fixed
sid
6.16.9-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.43-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.48-1
fixed
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cluster-md-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
dlm-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
gfs2-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-default-base
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-default-man
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-macros
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-source
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
kernel-syms
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
ocfs2-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.280.1
fixed
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RHEL 9
0:7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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RHEL 9
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fixed
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
fixed
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0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
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0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
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