{"id":"CVE-2024-40959","revision":"47a40bf44efe4880a40b06affc4d8351","records":[{"revision":"47a40bf44efe4880a40b06affc4d8351","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2024-40959","aliases":[],"title":"xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr()\n\nip6_dst_idev() can return NULL, xfrm6_get_saddr() must act accordingly.\n\nsyzbot reported:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb8481381d4e2 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024\nWorkqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker\n RIP: 0010:xfrm6_get_saddr+0x93/0x130 net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:64\nCode: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 97 00 00 00 4c 8b ab d8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 86 00 00 00 4d 8b 6d 00 e8 ca 13 47 01 48 b8 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000117378 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88807b079dc0 RCX: ffffffff89a0d6d7\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff89a0d6e9 RDI: ffff88807b079e98\nRBP: ffff88807ad73248 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: fffffffffffff000\nR10: ffff88807b079dc0 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffffc90000117480\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f4586d00440 CR3: 0000000079042000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \n xfrm_get_saddr 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