CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40292
8.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio-net: fix received length check in big packets
Since commit 4959aebba8c0 ("virtio-net: use mtu size as buffer length
for big packets"), when guest gso is off, the allocated size for big
packets is not MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE anymore but depends on
negotiated MTU. The number of allocated frags for big packets is stored
in vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags.
Because the host announced buffer length can be malicious (e.g. the host
vhost_net driver's get_rx_bufs is modified to announce incorrect
length), we need a check in virtio_net receive path. Currently, the
check is not adapted to the new change which can lead to NULL page
pointer dereference in the below while loop when receiving length that
is larger than the allocated one.
This commit fixes the received length check corresponding to the new
change.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c716703965ffc5ef4311b65cb5d84a703784717 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e9d89f2ecd3636bd4cbdfd0b2dfdaf58f9882e2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f9028e83944a9eee5229cbc6fee9be1de8a62d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82fe78065450d2d07f36a22e2b6b44955cf5ca5b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/946dec89c41726b94d31147ec528b96af0be1b5a git.kernel.org