ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][J/F][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-36901

[Manuel Diewald]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 10:02:45PM -0300, Vinicius Peixoto wrote:
> [Impact]
> According to syzbot, there is a chance that ip6_dst_idev()
> returns NULL in ip6_output(). Most places in IPv6 stack
> deal with a NULL idev just fine, but not here.
> 
> [Backport]
> Due to the lack of upstream commit 
> 5e187189ec324f78035d33a4bc123a9c4ca6f3e3 ("net: ip: add skb drop reasons for ip egress path)"
> Jammy, Focal, Bionic and Xenial had a context conflict.
> Xenial is also missing 97a7a37a7b7b ("ipv6: Initial skb->dev and skb->protocol in ip6_output").
> However, none of those commits directly impact the fix or the issue,
> so a manual backport is appropriate here.
> 
> [Test]
> Compile tested.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> Any issues here would directly impact IPv6 networking.
> 
> Eric Dumazet (1):
>   ipv6: prevent NULL dereference in ip6_output()
> 
>  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 
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We usually put the CVE number right before the final Signed-off-by: line
in the commit message.

Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>

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 Manuel
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