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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26857" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:17:19.115Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:27:51.379Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26857" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26857.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26857" title: "geneve: make sure to pull inner header in geneve_rx()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngeneve: make sure to pull inner header in geneve_rx()\n\nsyzbot triggered a bug in geneve_rx() [1]\n\nIssue is similar to the one I fixed in commit 8d975c15c0cd\n(\"ip6_tunnel: make sure to pull inner header in __ip6_tnl_rcv()\")\n\nWe have to save skb-\u003enetwork_header in a temporary variable\nin order to be able to recompute the network_header pointer\nafter a pskb_inet_may_pull() call.\n\npskb_inet_may_pull() makes sure the needed headers are in skb-\u003ehead.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in IP_ECN_decapsulate include/net/inet_ecn.h:302 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in geneve_rx drivers/net/geneve.c:279 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in geneve_udp_encap_recv+0x36f9/0x3c10 drivers/net/geneve.c:391\n IP_ECN_decapsulate include/net/inet_ecn.h:302 [inline]\n geneve_rx drivers/net/geneve.c:279 [inline]\n geneve_udp_encap_recv+0x36f9/0x3c10 drivers/net/geneve.c:391\n udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x1d39/0x1f20 net/ipv4/udp.c:2108\n udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x6ae/0x6e0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2186\n udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x184/0x4b0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2346\n __udp4_lib_rcv+0x1c6b/0x3010 net/ipv4/udp.c:2422\n udp_rcv+0x7d/0xa0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2604\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x264/0x1300 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205\n ip_local_deliver_finish+0x2b8/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233\n NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]\n ip_local_deliver+0x21f/0x490 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254\n dst_input include/net/dst.h:461 [inline]\n ip_rcv_finish net/ipv4/ip_input.c:449 [inline]\n NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]\n ip_rcv+0x46f/0x760 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:569\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5534 [inline]\n __netif_receive_skb+0x1a6/0x5a0 net/core/dev.c:5648\n process_backlog+0x480/0x8b0 net/core/dev.c:5976\n __napi_poll+0xe3/0x980 net/core/dev.c:6576\n napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6645 [inline]\n net_rx_action+0x8b8/0x1870 net/core/dev.c:6778\n __do_softirq+0x1b7/0x7c5 kernel/softirq.c:553\n do_softirq+0x9a/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:454\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0x9b/0xa0 kernel/softirq.c:381\n local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]\n rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:820 [inline]\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x2768/0x51c0 net/core/dev.c:4378\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3171 [inline]\n packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3081 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x8aef/0x9f10 net/packet/af_packet.c:3113\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3819 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3860 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5cb/0xbc0 mm/slub.c:3903\n kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560\n __alloc_skb+0x352/0x790 net/core/skbuff.c:651\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1296 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6394\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2783\n packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2930 [inline]\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3024 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x70c2/0x9f10 net/packet/af_packet.c:3113\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]\n __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b" affected: 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