CVE-2026-46024: libceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply() If a message of type CEPH_MSG_AUTH_REPLY contains a zero value for both protocol and result, this is currently not treated as an error. In case of ac->negotiating == true and ac->protocol > 0, this leads to setting ac->protocol = 0 and ac->ops = NULL. Thereafter, the check for ac->protocol != protocol returns false, and init_protocol() is not called. Subsequently, ac->ops->handle_reply() is called, which leads to a null pointer dereference, because ac->ops is still NULL. This patch changes the check for ac->protocol != protocol to !ac->protocol, as this also includes the case when the protocol was set to zero in the message. This causes the message to be treated as containing a bad auth protocol.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 4b2738b93edad661178340239de657d876b73d3d (from 4e7a5dcd1bbab6560fbc8ada29a840e7a20ed7bc) · < 927e4bd5692f2a4901808822981fb2c8d4456548 (from 4e7a5dcd1bbab6560fbc8ada29a840e7a20ed7bc) · < 016bc663657366d386993f63eb31072eb45a2b77 (from 4e7a5dcd1bbab6560fbc8ada29a840e7a20ed7bc) · < 8f2be7285941a33a9f72579a23b96392f83c758e (from 4e7a5dcd1bbab6560fbc8ada29a840e7a20ed7bc) · < 5199c125d25aeae8615c4fc31652cc0fe624338e (from 4e7a5dcd1bbab6560fbc8ada29a840e7a20ed7bc)
- Linux / Linux2.6.34Fixed in 0, 6.6.140, 6.12.86, 6.18.27, 7.0.4, 7.1-rc1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H