CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-49948

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was resolved in qdisc_pkt_len_init() which lacked sufficient sanity checks for GSO packets. A user can provide a malicious GSO packet of 80 bytes total length, leading to an underflow in qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to memory corruption or incorrect network stack behavior, potentially allowing an attacker to destabilize the system or execute code.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix adding more sanity checks to qdisc_pkt_len_init().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: add more sanity checks to qdisc_pkt_len_init() One path takes care of SKB_GSO_DODGY, assuming skb->len is bigger than hdr_len. virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() does not fully dissect TCP headers, it only make sure it is at least 20 bytes. It is possible for an user to provide a malicious 'GSO' packet, total length of 80 bytes. - 20 bytes of IPv4 header - 60 bytes TCP header - a small gso_size like 8 virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() would declare this packet as a normal GSO packet, because it would see 40 bytes of payload, bigger than gso_size. We need to make detect this case to not underflow qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len.

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