CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49340
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ip_gre: test csum_start instead of transport header
GRE with TUNNEL_CSUM will apply local checksum offload on
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL packets.
ipgre_xmit must validate csum_start after an optional skb_pull,
else lco_csum may trigger an overflow. The original check was
if (csum && skb_checksum_start(skb) < skb->data)
return -EINVAL;
This had false positives when skb_checksum_start is undefined:
when ip_summed is not CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. A discussed refinement
was straightforward
if (csum && skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
skb_checksum_start(skb) < skb->data)
return -EINVAL;
But was eventually revised more thoroughly:
- restrict the check to the only branch where needed, in an
uncommon GRE path that uses header_ops and calls skb_pull.
- test skb_transport_header, which is set along with csum_start
in skb_partial_csum_set in the normal header_ops datapath.
Turns out skbs can arrive in this branch without the transport
header set, e.g., through BPF redirection.
Revise the check back to check csum_start directly, and only if
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. Do leave the check in the updated location.
Check field regardless of whether TUNNEL_CSUM is configured.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.207 < 4.19.247)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.148 < 5.4.198)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.68 < 5.10.122)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14.7 < 5.15.47)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.19
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c92d813c7c9ca2212ecd879232e7d87362fce98 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ffa268724656633af5f37a38c212326d98ebe8c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d08bc3a5d9b2106f5c8bcf1adb73147824aa006 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7596bd7920985f7fc8579a92e48bc53ce4475b21 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d21e9963bec1aad2280cdd034c8993033ef2948 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6b6f98fc7605c06c0a3baa70f62c534d7b4ce58 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbeb8dfa8b87ef259eef0c89e39b53962a3cf604 Patch