CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98952
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pfcp: make sure the SEID is linear before reading it
pfcp_encap_recv() only makes sure that the UDP header and the 4 byte
PFCP header are in the linear area. When the S flag is set,
pfcp_session_recv() then reads the 8 byte SEID that follows, which is
not covered by the pskb_may_pull() check.
A short PFCP packet with the S flag set, or one whose session header
lies in a fragment, therefore makes pfcp_session_recv() read beyond the
end of the packet data, and whatever it finds there is stored in the
tunnel metadata that flower later classifies on.
Pull up to the end of the SEID before reading it, and drop packets
that are too short to contain it. Reload the header pointer afterwards
since pskb_may_pull() may reallocate the skb head.
Use offsetofend() rather than sizeof(struct pfcphdr_session): the
structure is not packed, so its size is 16 bytes because of the
alignment of the __be64 member, while the header on the wire is only 12
bytes, and valid session messages would be dropped.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23609bce9e1de525d1d0e73fc68c6e7971d0b49e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fb6d05f706d79bbdc88835be2f4f45ab56dd819 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3192a5e398c64d48aad64a09e29643e327369bc4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b18a6496495495e2dc27e525aa3315a0c59b9513 git.kernel.org