CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-49979
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: gso: fix tcp fraglist segmentation after pull from frag_list
Detect tcp gso fraglist skbs with corrupted geometry (see below) and
pass these to skb_segment instead of skb_segment_list, as the first
can segment them correctly.
Valid SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST skbs
- consist of two or more segments
- the head_skb holds the protocol headers plus first gso_size
- one or more frag_list skbs hold exactly one segment
- all but the last must be gso_size
Optional datapath hooks such as NAT and BPF (bpf_skb_pull_data) can
modify these skbs, breaking these invariants.
In extreme cases they pull all data into skb linear. For TCP, this
causes a NULL ptr deref in __tcpv4_gso_segment_list_csum at
tcp_hdr(seg->next).
Detect invalid geometry due to pull, by checking head_skb size.
Don't just drop, as this may blackhole a destination. Convert to be
able to pass to regular skb_segment.
Approach and description based on a patch by Willem de Bruijn.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.10 < 6.10.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.3)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17bd3bd82f9f79f3feba15476c2b2c95a9b11ff8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d4a83a44428de45bfe9dccb0192a3711d1097e0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fdd8c83e83fa5e82f1b5585245c51e0355c9f46 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75733986fcb0725c0033cde94764389e287b331e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e19201b0c67da5146eaac06fd3d44bd7945c3448 git.kernel.org