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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49949" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:02:05.756Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:54:55.533Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" 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-2024-49949" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49949.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49949" title: "net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO\n\nAfter commit 7c6d2ecbda83 (\"net: be more gentle about silly gso\nrequests coming from user\") virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() had sanity check\nto detect malicious attempts from user space to cook a bad GSO packet.\n\nThen commit cf9acc90c80ec (\"net: virtio_net_hdr_to_skb: count\ntransport header in UFO\") while fixing one issue, allowed user space\nto cook a GSO packet with the following characteristic :\n\nIPv4 SKB_GSO_UDP, gso_size=3, skb-\u003elen = 28.\n\nWhen this packet arrives in qdisc_pkt_len_init(), we end up\nwith hdr_len = 28 (IPv4 header + UDP header), matching skb-\u003elen\n\nThen the following sets gso_segs to 0 :\n\ngso_segs = DIV_ROUND_UP(skb-\u003elen - hdr_len,\n shinfo-\u003egso_size);\n\nThen later we set qdisc_skb_cb(skb)-\u003epkt_len to back to zero :/\n\nqdisc_skb_cb(skb)-\u003epkt_len += (gso_segs - 1) * hdr_len;\n\nThis leads to the following crash in fq_codel [1]\n\nqdisc_pkt_len_init() is best effort, we only want an estimation\nof the bytes sent on the wire, not crashing the kernel.\n\nThis patch is fixing this particular issue, a following one\nadds more sanity checks for another potential bug.\n\n[1]\n[ 70.724101] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[ 70.724561] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[ 70.724561] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[ 70.724561] PGD 10ac61067 P4D 10ac61067 PUD 107ee2067 PMD 0\n[ 70.724561] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[ 70.724561] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 2163 Comm: b358537762 Not tainted 6.11.0-virtme #991\n[ 70.724561] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[ 70.724561] RIP: 0010:fq_codel_enqueue (net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:120 net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:168 net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c:230) sch_fq_codel\n[ 70.724561] Code: 24 08 49 c1 e1 06 44 89 7c 24 18 45 31 ed 45 31 c0 31 ff 89 44 24 14 4c 03 8b 90 01 00 00 eb 04 39 ca 73 37 4d 8b 39 83 c7 01 \u003c49\u003e 8b 17 49 89 11 41 8b 57 28 45 8b 5f 34 49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 49\nAll code\n========\n 0:\t24 08 \tand $0x8,%al\n 2:\t49 c1 e1 06 \tshl $0x6,%r9\n 6:\t44 89 7c 24 18 \tmov %r15d,0x18(%rsp)\n b:\t45 31 ed \txor %r13d,%r13d\n e:\t45 31 c0 \txor %r8d,%r8d\n 11:\t31 ff \txor %edi,%edi\n 13:\t89 44 24 14 \tmov %eax,0x14(%rsp)\n 17:\t4c 03 8b 90 01 00 00 \tadd 0x190(%rbx),%r9\n 1e:\teb 04 \tjmp 0x24\n 20:\t39 ca \tcmp %ecx,%edx\n 22:\t73 37 \tjae 0x5b\n 24:\t4d 8b 39 \tmov (%r9),%r15\n 27:\t83 c7 01 \tadd $0x1,%edi\n 2a:*\t49 8b 17 \tmov (%r15),%rdx\t\t\u003c-- trapping instruction\n 2d:\t49 89 11 \tmov %rdx,(%r9)\n 30:\t41 8b 57 28 \tmov 0x28(%r15),%edx\n 34:\t45 8b 5f 34 \tmov 0x34(%r15),%r11d\n 38:\t49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 \tmovq $0x0,(%r15)\n 3f:\t49 \trex.WB\n\nCode starting with the faulting instruction\n===========================================\n 0:\t49 8b 17 \tmov (%r15),%rdx\n 3:\t49 89 11 \tmov %rdx,(%r9)\n 6:\t41 8b 57 28 \tmov 0x28(%r15),%edx\n a:\t45 8b 5f 34 \tmov 0x34(%r15),%r11d\n e:\t49 c7 07 00 00 00 00 \tmovq $0x0,(%r15)\n 15:\t49 \trex.WB\n[ 70.724561] RSP: 0018:ffff95ae85e6fb90 EFLAGS: 00000202\n[ 70.724561] RAX: 0000000002000000 RBX: ffff95ae841de000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 70.724561] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001\n[ 70.724561] RBP: ffff95ae85e6fbf8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff95b710a30000\n[ 70.724561] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: bdf289445ce31881 R12: ffff95ae85e6fc58\n[ 70.724561] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000040 R15: 0000000000000000\n[ 70.724561] FS: 000000002c5c1380(0000) GS:ffff95bd7fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 70.724561] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 C\n---truncated---" affected: 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