Vulnerabilities
- CVSS
- 5.5 Medium
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS
- 0.12%
- Risk score
- 1.2
- Published
- 2026-03-20
- Status
- Published
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: teql: fix NULL pointer dereference in iptunnel_xmit on TEQL slave xmit
teql_master_xmit() calls netdev_start_xmit(skb, slave) to transmit
through slave devices, but does not update skb->dev to the slave device
beforehand.
When a gretap tunnel is a TEQL slave, the transmit path reaches
iptunnel_xmit() which saves dev = skb->dev (still pointing to teql0
master) and later calls iptunnel_xmit_stats(dev, pkt_len). This
function does:
get_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats)
Since teql_master_setup() does not set dev->pcpu_stat_type to
NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_TSTATS, the core network stack never allocates tstats
for teql0, so dev->tstats is NULL. get_cpu_ptr(NULL) computes
NULL + __per_cpu_offset[cpu], resulting in a page fault.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8880e6659018
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 68bc067 P4D 68bc067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
RIP: 0010:iptunnel_xmit (./include/net/ip_tunnels.h:664 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:89)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
__gre_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:478)
gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
teql_master_xmit (net/sched/sch_teql.c:319)
dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
__dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
neigh_direct_output (net/core/neighbour.c:1660)
ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
__ip_finish_output.part.0 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:315)
ip_mc_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:369)
ip_send_skb (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1508)
udp_send_skb (net/ipv4/udp.c:1195)
udp_sendmsg (net/ipv4/udp.c:1485)
inet_sendmsg (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:859)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2206)
Fix this by setting skb->dev = slave before calling
netdev_start_xmit(), so that tunnel xmit functions see the correct
slave device with properly allocated tstats.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Traffic Equalizer (TEQL) module's interaction with the IP tunneling framework. When a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tap tunnel acts as a TEQL slave, the system attempts to access uninitialized statistics data, leading to a system crash. This can result in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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