* [PATCH net] netfilter: bridge: fix stale prevhdr pointer in br_ip6_fragment()
@ 2026-07-06 23:28 Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
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From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) @ 2026-07-06 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, Phil Sutter,
David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Simon Horman
Cc: netfilter-devel, coreteam, netdev, linux-kernel,
AutonomousCodeSecurity, tgopinath, kys, Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
br_ip6_fragment() gets prevhdr, a pointer into the skb head, from
ip6_find_1stfragopt(), then calls skb_checksum_help(). For a cloned skb
skb_checksum_help() reallocates the head via pskb_expand_head(), leaving
prevhdr dangling. It is later dereferenced in ip6_frag_next(), causing a
use-after-free write.
Re-find prevhdr after skb_checksum_help() so it points into the current
head.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip6_frag_next (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:857)
Write of size 1 at addr ffff888013ff5016 by task exploit/141
Call Trace:
...
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
ip6_frag_next (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:857)
br_ip6_fragment (net/ipv6/netfilter.c:212)
nf_ct_bridge_post (net/bridge/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bridge.c:407)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
br_forward_finish (net/bridge/br_forward.c:66)
__br_forward (net/bridge/br_forward.c:115)
maybe_deliver (net/bridge/br_forward.c:191)
br_flood (net/bridge/br_forward.c:245)
br_handle_frame_finish (net/bridge/br_input.c:229)
br_handle_frame (net/bridge/br_input.c:442)
...
packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3114)
...
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 764dd163ac92 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_bridge: add support for IPv6")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
index 6d80f85e55fa..547879da9532 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ int br_ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
(err = skb_checksum_help(skb)))
goto blackhole;
+ err = ip6_find_1stfragopt(skb, &prevhdr);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto blackhole;
+
hroom = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(skb->dev);
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
unsigned int first_len = skb_pagelen(skb);
--
2.43.0
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