CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21926
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:
net: gso: fix ownership in __udp_gso_segment
In __udp_gso_segment the skb destructor is removed before segmenting the
skb but the socket reference is kept as-is. This is an issue if the
original skb is later orphaned as we can hit the following bug:
kernel BUG at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3312! (skb_orphan)
RIP: 0010:ip_rcv_core+0x8b2/0xca0
Call Trace:
ip_rcv+0xab/0x6e0
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x168/0x1b0
process_backlog+0x384/0x1100
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa1/0x370
net_rx_action+0x925/0xe50
The above can happen following a sequence of events when using
OpenVSwitch, when an OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE action precedes an
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT action:
1. OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE is handled (in do_execute_actions): the skb
goes through queue_gso_packets and then __udp_gso_segment, where its
destructor is removed.
2. The segments' data are copied and sent to userspace.
3. OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT is handled (in do_execute_actions) and the
same original skb is sent to its path.
4. If it later hits skb_orphan, we hit the bug.
Fix this by also removing the reference to the socket in
__udp_gso_segment.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 5.4.291)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.235)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.179)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.131)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a83237644d6822bc7df2c5564fc81b0df84358 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/084819b0d8b1bd433b90142371eb9450d657f8ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455217ac9db0cf9349b3933664355e907bb1a569 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f28205ddb76e86cac418332e952241d85fed0dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d1cca955ed34873e524cc2e6e885450d262f05 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32da44cc9298eaa6109e3fc2c2b4e07cc4bf11b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8db70537878e1bb3fd83e5abcc6feefc0587828 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee01b2f2d7d0010787c2343463965bbc283a497f Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html cert-portal.siemens.com