In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: fix pppasyncencode() illegal access syzbot reported an issue in pppasyncencode() [1] In this case, pppoesendmsg() is called with a zero size. Then pppasyncencode() is called with an empty skb. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pppasyncencode drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:545 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pppasyncpush+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:675 pppasyncencode drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:545 [inline] pppasyncpush+0xb4f/0x2660 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:675 pppasyncsend+0x130/0x1b0 drivers/net/ppp/pppasync.c:634 pppchannelbridgeinput drivers/net/ppp/pppgeneric.c:2280 [inline] pppinput+0x1f1/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/pppgeneric.c:2304 pppoercvcore+0x1d3/0x720 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379 skbacklogrcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1113 releasesock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3072 releasesock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3626 pppoesendmsg+0x2b8/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:903 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] _socksendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 _syssendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 _syssendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 _dosyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] _sesyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] _x64syssendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64syscall+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls64.h:308 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f Uninit was created at: slabpostallochook mm/slub.c:4092 [inline] slaballocnode mm/slub.c:4135 [inline] kmemcacheallocnodenoprof+0x6bf/0xb80 mm/slub.c:4187 kmallocreserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:587 _allocskb+0x363/0x7b0 net/core/skbuff.c:678 allocskb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline] sockwmalloc+0xfe/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:2732 pppoesendmsg+0x3a7/0xb90 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:867 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:729 [inline] _socksendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:744 syssendmsg+0x903/0xb60 net/socket.c:2602 _syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2656 _syssendmmsg+0x3c1/0x960 net/socket.c:2742 _dosyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2771 [inline] _sesyssendmmsg net/socket.c:2768 [inline] _x64syssendmmsg+0xbc/0x120 net/socket.c:2768 x64syscall+0xb6e/0x3ba0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls64.h:308 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5411 Comm: syz.1.14 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller-00165-g360c1f1f24c6 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024