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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	 David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Damiano Melotti <melotti@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix potential UAF caused by ip6_forward_proxy_check()
Date: Tue,  5 May 2026 13:00:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260505130056.2927197-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)

ip6_forward_proxy_check() calls pskb_may_pull() which might re-allocate
skb->head.

Reload ipv6_hdr() after the pskb_may_pull() call to avoid using
the freed memory.

Fixes: e21e0b5f19ac ("[IPV6] NDISC: Handle NDP messages to proxied addresses.")
Reported-by: Damiano Melotti <melotti@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7e92909ab5be3f86b10bf9527e97f3bfe794e9e9..aee91ba04130527ceb19881dc1e7232a5d2c8580 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ static int ip6_forward_proxy_check(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		default:
 			break;
 		}
+		hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -582,6 +583,8 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (READ_ONCE(net->ipv6.devconf_all->proxy_ndp) &&
 	    pneigh_lookup(&nd_tbl, net, &hdr->daddr, skb->dev)) {
 		int proxied = ip6_forward_proxy_check(skb);
+
+		hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 		if (proxied > 0) {
 			/* It's tempting to decrease the hop limit
 			 * here by 1, as we do at the end of the
-- 
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-05 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-05 13:00 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-05-05 20:37 ` [PATCH net] ipv6: fix potential UAF caused by ip6_forward_proxy_check() David Ahern

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