CVE-2024-35973
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2024
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
geneve: fix header validation in geneve[6]_xmit_skb
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: geneve: fix header validation in geneve[6]_xmit_skb syzbot is able to trigger an uninit-value in geneve_xmit() [1] Problem : While most ip tunnel helpers (like ip_tunnel_get_dsfield()) uses skb_protocol(skb, true), pskb_inet_may_pull() is only using skb->protocol. If anything else than ETH_P_IPV6 or ETH_P_IP is found in skb->protocol, pskb_inet_may_pull() does nothing at all. If a vlan tag was provided by the caller (af_packet in the syzbot case), the network header might not point to the correct location, and skb linear part could be smaller than expected. Add skb_vlan_inet_prepare() to perform a complete mac validation. Use this in geneve for the moment, I suspect we need to adopt this more broadly. v4 - Jakub reported v3 broke l2_tos_ttl_inherit.sh selftest - Only call __vlan_get_protocol() for vlan types. v2,v3 - Addressed Sabrina comments on v1 and v2 [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in geneve_xmit_skb drivers/net/geneve.c:910 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in geneve_xmit+0x302d/0x5420 drivers/net/geneve.c:1030 geneve_xmit_skb drivers/net/geneve.c:910 [inline] geneve_xmit+0x302d/0x5420 drivers/net/geneve.c:1030 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4903 [inline] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4917 [inline] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3531 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa20 net/core/dev.c:3547 __dev_queue_xmit+0x348d/0x52c0 net/core/dev.c:4335 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline] packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3081 [inline] packet_sendmsg+0x8bb0/0x9ef0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3113 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:745 __sys_sendto+0x685/0x830 net/socket.c:2191 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2199 do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75 Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3804 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3845 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x613/0xc50 mm/slub.c:3888 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:577 __alloc_skb+0x35b/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:668 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1318 [inline] alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbf0 net/core/skbuff.c:6504 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa81/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2795 packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2930 [inline] packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3024 [inline] packet_sendmsg+0x722d/0x9ef0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3113 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:745 __sys_sendto+0x685/0x830 net/socket.c:2191 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2199 do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75 CPU: 0 PID: 5033 Comm: syz-executor346 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-syzkaller-00005-g928a87efa423 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35385daa8db320d2d9664930c28e732578b0d7de | affected | git | 43be590456e1f3566054ce78ae2dbb68cbe1a536 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6f92124d74419797fadfbcd5b7a72c384a6413ad | affected | git | d3adf11d7993518a39bd02b383cfe657ccc0023c | Unavailable | None listed |
| 71ad9260c001b217d704cda88ecea251b2d367da | affected | git | 10204df9beda4978bd1d0c2db0d8375bfb03b915 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d13f048dd40e8577260cd43faea8ec9b77520197 | affected | git | 3c1ae6de74e3d2d6333d29a2d3e13e6094596c79 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d13f048dd40e8577260cd43faea8ec9b77520197 | affected | git | 4a1b65d1e55d53b397cb27014208be1e04172670 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d13f048dd40e8577260cd43faea8ec9b77520197 | affected | git | 190d9efa5773f26d6f334b1b8be282c4fa13fd5e | Unavailable | None listed |
| d13f048dd40e8577260cd43faea8ec9b77520197 | affected | git | 357163fff3a6e48fe74745425a32071ec9caf852 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d13f048dd40e8577260cd43faea8ec9b77520197 | affected | git | d8a6213d70accb403b82924a1c229e733433a5ef | Unavailable | None listed |
| 9a51e36ebf433adf59c051bec33f5aa54640bb4d | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 21815f28af8081b258552c111774ff320cf38d38 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.19.191 | affected | semver | 4.19.313 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.119 | affected | semver | 5.4.275 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.37 | affected | semver | 5.10.216 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.11.21 | affected | semver | 5.12 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.12.4 | affected | semver | 5.13 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.13 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.13 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.19.313 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.19.* | None listed |
| 5.4.275 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.216 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.156 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.87 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.28 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.8.7 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.8.* | None listed |
| 6.9 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |