Vulnerabilities > CVE-2025-22063 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets When calling netlbl_conn_setattr(), addr->sa_family is used to determine the function behavior. If sk is an IPv4 socket, but the connect function is called with an IPv6 address, the function calipso_sock_setattr() is triggered. Inside this function, the following code is executed: sk_fullsock(__sk) ? inet_sk(__sk)->pinet6 : NULL; Since sk is an IPv4 socket, pinet6 is NULL, leading to a null pointer dereference. This patch fixes the issue by checking if inet6_sk(sk) returns a NULL pointer before accessing pinet6.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/078aabd567de3d63d37d7673f714e309d369e6e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/172a8a996a337206970467e871dd995ac07640b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1927d0bcd5b81e80971bf6b8eba267508bd1c78b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ad9166cab6a0f5c0b10344a97bdf749ae11dcbf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e38f7a6cdd68377f8a4189b2fbaec14a6dd5152
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba9cf69de50e8abed32b448616c313baa4c5712
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/797e5371cf55463b4530bab3fef5f27f7c6657a8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe3839588db7519030377b7dee3f165e654f6c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7e89541d05b98c79a51c0f95df020f8e82b62ed