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Ordinary remote packets do not carry this malformed skb/GSO state on the wire.\nAC:L - No race or external timing condition is required. The attacker controls the GSO header metadata and packet layout needed to make qdisc accept a header that later TX code expects to be linear.\nPR:L - AF_PACKET requires CAP_NET_RAW in the target network namespace, and TUN/TAP style paths require CAP_NET_ADMIN or access to an existing tap/tun file descriptor. These are reachable as low privilege in user-namespace or guest/tap deployments rather than requiring init-namespace root in the highest reasonable scenario.\nUI:N - No victim user action is needed once the attacker can inject the crafted local/guest packet. The transmit path processes the skb automatically.\nS:C - In virtualization deployments, a guest-controlled GSO packet can be processed by the host kernel tap/vhost transmit path and affect host kernel memory or availability. That crosses the guest-to-host security boundary.\nC:H - TSO helpers copy header bytes directly from skb->data, so a header accepted via skb_header_pointer() but not pulled into skb->head can leak adjacent kernel memory into transmitted segment headers. This is an out-of-bounds kernel read and is scored High.\nI:N - The investigated primitive is incorrect header linearity causing out-of-bounds reads and crashes, not a demonstrated attacker-controlled write or protected data modification. I did not find a reliable integrity-impacting write primitive from this fix.\nA:H - Malformed GSO packets can trigger kernel faults or invalid driver/TSO behavior during transmit, including panics reported for this issue. Repeated local injection can therefore cause high availability impact." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "include/net/dropreason-core.h", "net/core/dev.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f", "lessThan": "9d4f5c68f5ad4ab425f3ce1500c97c9f9743999a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f", "lessThan": "7fb4c19670110f052c04e1ec1d2b953b9f4f57e4", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "include/net/dropreason-core.h", "net/core/dev.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "3.16", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "3.16", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.0.10", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.0.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.1", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.0.10" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d4f5c68f5ad4ab425f3ce1500c97c9f9743999a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fb4c19670110f052c04e1ec1d2b953b9f4f57e4" } ], "title": "net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "affected": [ { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6" ], "defaultStatus": "unknown", "packageName": "kernel", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel-rt", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel-rt", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "vendor": "Red Hat" }, { "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/", "cpes": [ "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9" ], "defaultStatus": "affected", "packageName": "kernel-rt", "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "vendor": "Red Hat" } ], "datePublic": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) packet headers. This vulnerability occurs when the `qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()` function does not properly pull headers into the expected memory location, which can lead to incorrect processing by network drivers. 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