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CVE-2024-26803

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2024
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net: veth: clear GRO when clearing XDP even when down

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: veth: clear GRO when clearing XDP even when down veth sets NETIF_F_GRO automatically when XDP is enabled, because both features use the same NAPI machinery. The logic to clear NETIF_F_GRO sits in veth_disable_xdp() which is called both on ndo_stop and when XDP is turned off. To avoid the flag from being cleared when the device is brought down, the clearing is skipped when IFF_UP is not set. Bringing the device down should indeed not modify its features. Unfortunately, this means that clearing is also skipped when XDP is disabled _while_ the device is down. And there's nothing on the open path to bring the device features back into sync. IOW if user enables XDP, disables it and then brings the device up we'll end up with a stray GRO flag set but no NAPI instances. We don't depend on the GRO flag on the datapath, so the datapath won't crash. We will crash (or hang), however, next time features are sync'ed (either by user via ethtool or peer changing its config). The GRO flag will go away, and veth will try to disable the NAPIs. But the open path never created them since XDP was off, the GRO flag was a stray. If NAPI was initialized before we'll hang in napi_disable(). If it never was we'll crash trying to stop uninitialized hrtimer. Move the GRO flag updates to the XDP enable / disable paths, instead of mixing them with the ndo_open / ndo_close paths.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
d3256efd8e8b234a6251e4d4580bd2c3c31fdc4caffectedgitf011c103e654d83dc85f057a7d1bd0960d02831cUnavailableNone listed
d3256efd8e8b234a6251e4d4580bd2c3c31fdc4caffectedgit7985d73961bbb4e726c1be7b9cd26becc7be8325UnavailableNone listed
d3256efd8e8b234a6251e4d4580bd2c3c31fdc4caffectedgit16edf51f33f52dff70ed455bc40a6cc443c04664UnavailableNone listed
d3256efd8e8b234a6251e4d4580bd2c3c31fdc4caffectedgit8f7a3894e58e6f5d5815533cfde60e3838947941UnavailableNone listed
d3256efd8e8b234a6251e4d4580bd2c3c31fdc4caffectedgitfe9f801355f0b47668419f30f1fac1cf4539e736UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.13affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.13UnavailableNone listed
5.15.151unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.81unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.21unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.7.9unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.7.*None listed
6.8unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed