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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-36933"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-30T15:29:23.764Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:32:09.348Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
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-2024-36933"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36933.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36933"
title: "nsh: Restore skb-\u003e{protocol,data,mac_header} for outer header in nsh_gso_segment()."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnsh: Restore skb-\u003e{protocol,data,mac_header} for outer header in nsh_gso_segment().\n\nsyzbot triggered various splats (see [0] and links) by a crafted GSO\npacket of VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP layering the following protocols:\n\n  ETH_P_8021AD + ETH_P_NSH + ETH_P_IPV6 + IPPROTO_UDP\n\nNSH can encapsulate IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet, NSH, and MPLS.  As the inner\nprotocol can be Ethernet, NSH GSO handler, nsh_gso_segment(), calls\nskb_mac_gso_segment() to invoke inner protocol GSO handlers.\n\nnsh_gso_segment() does the following for the original skb before\ncalling skb_mac_gso_segment()\n\n  1. reset skb-\u003enetwork_header\n  2. save the original skb-\u003e{mac_heaeder,mac_len} in a local variable\n  3. pull the NSH header\n  4. resets skb-\u003emac_header\n  5. set up skb-\u003emac_len and skb-\u003eprotocol for the inner protocol.\n\nand does the following for the segmented skb\n\n  6. set ntohs(ETH_P_NSH) to skb-\u003eprotocol\n  7. push the NSH header\n  8. restore skb-\u003emac_header\n  9. set skb-\u003emac_header + mac_len to skb-\u003enetwork_header\n 10. restore skb-\u003emac_len\n\nThere are two problems in 6-7 and 8-9.\n\n  (a)\n  After 6 & 7, skb-\u003edata points to the NSH header, so the outer header\n  (ETH_P_8021AD in this case) is stripped when skb is sent out of netdev.\n\n  Also, if NSH is encapsulated by NSH + Ethernet (so NSH-Ethernet-NSH),\n  skb_pull() in the first nsh_gso_segment() will make skb-\u003edata point\n  to the middle of the outer NSH or Ethernet header because the Ethernet\n  header is not pulled by the second nsh_gso_segment().\n\n  (b)\n  While restoring skb-\u003e{mac_header,network_header} in 8 & 9,\n  nsh_gso_segment() does not assume that the data in the linear\n  buffer is shifted.\n\n  However, udp6_ufo_fragment() could shift the data and change\n  skb-\u003emac_header accordingly as demonstrated by syzbot.\n\n  If this happens, even the restored skb-\u003emac_header points to\n  the middle of the outer header.\n\nIt seems nsh_gso_segment() has never worked with outer headers so far.\n\nAt the end of nsh_gso_segment(), the outer header must be restored for\nthe segmented skb, instead of the NSH header.\n\nTo do that, let's calculate the outer header position relatively from\nthe inner header and set skb-\u003e{data,mac_header,protocol} properly.\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:524 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xf44/0x16b0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:668\n ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:524 [inline]\n ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602 [inline]\n ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xf44/0x16b0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:668\n ipvlan_start_xmit+0x5c/0x1a0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:222\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4989 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5003 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3547 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x244/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3563\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x33ed/0x51c0 net/core/dev.c:4351\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 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3980 [inline]\n __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x705/0x1000 mm/slub.c:4001\n kmalloc_reserve+0x249/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:582\n __\n---truncated---"
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