CVE-2025-22063 — netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets

Affected: Linux

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.

USN-7585-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-orac…

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-kvm and 2 more

It was discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify the target namespace when handling upcalls. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-2312)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes driver; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Media drivers; - MemoryStick subsystem; - Network drivers; - NTB driver; - PCI subsystem; - SCSI subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - JFS file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Tracing infrastructure; - 802.1Q VLAN protocol; - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem; - Bluetooth subsystem; - IPv6 networking; - Netfilter; - Network traffic control; - Sun RPC protocol; - USB sound devices; (CVE-2025-22007, CVE-2025-21959, CVE-2025-22021, CVE-2025-22063, CVE-2025-22045, CVE-2024-58093, CVE-2022-49636, CVE-2025-22020, CVE-2024-53168, CVE-2025-22071, CVE-2025-39735, CVE-2025-21991, CVE-2025-21992, CVE-2025-21996, CVE-2025-22035, CVE-2023-53034, CVE-2025-22054, CVE-2025-23136, CVE-2025-22073, CVE-2024-56551, CVE-2025-22005, CVE-2025-37937, CVE-2021-47211, CVE-2025-22086, CVE-2025-21956, CVE-2025-38637, CVE-2025-22004, CVE-2025-22018, CVE-2025-22079, CVE-2025-21957, CVE-2025-21993)

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CVE-2025-22063 — netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets

USN-7585-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-orac…