net: hsr: avoid possible NULL deref in skb_clone()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: avoid possible NULL deref in skb_clone() syzbot got a crash [1] in skb_clone(), caused by a bug in hsr_get_untagged_frame(). When/if create_stripped_skb_hsr() returns NULL, we must not attempt to call skb_clone(). While we are at it, replace a WARN_ONCE() by netdev_warn_once(). [1] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f] CPU: 1 PID: 754 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 RIP: 0010:skb_clone+0x108/0x3c0 net/core/skbuff.c:1641 Code: 93 02 00 00 49 83 7c 24 28 00 0f 85 e9 00 00 00 e8 5d 4a 29 fa 4c 8d 75 7e 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 4c 89 f2 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 9e 01 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ccf4e0 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc90003ccf5f8 RCX: ffffc9000c24b000 RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: ffffffff8751cb13 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000000f0 R09: 0000000000000140 R10: fffffbfff181d972 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888161fc3640 R13: 0000000000000a20 R14: 000000000000007e R15: ffffffff8dc5f620 FS: 00007feb621e4700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007feb621e3ff8 CR3:
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-50817
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 21:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
net: hsr: avoid possible NULL deref in skb_clone()
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 30 Dec 2025, 12:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: avoid possible NULL deref in skb_clone() syzbot got a crash [1] in skb_clone(), caused by a bug in hsr_get_untagged_frame(). When/if create_stripped_skb_hsr() returns NULL, we must not attempt to call skb_clone(). While we are at it, replace a WARN_ONCE() by netdev_warn_once(). [1] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f] CPU: 1 PID: 754 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 RIP: 0010:skb_clone+0x108/0x3c0 net/core/skbuff.c:1641 Code: 93 02 00 00 49 83 7c 24 28 00 0f 85 e9 00 00 00 e8 5d 4a 29 fa 4c 8d 75 7e 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 4c 89 f2 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 9e 01 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ccf4e0 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc90003ccf5f8 RCX: ffffc9000c24b000 RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: ffffffff8751cb13 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000000f0 R09: 0000000000000140 R10: fffffbfff181d972 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888161fc3640 R13: 0000000000000a20 R14: 000000000000007e R15: ffffffff8dc5f620 FS: 00007feb621e4700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007feb621e3ff8 CR3:
osv:CVE-2022-50817
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6
Complete source record
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