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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 19, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-35888

CVE-2024-35888

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erspan: make sure erspan_base_hdr is present in skb->head

syzbot reported a problem in ip6erspan_rcv() [1]

Issue is that ip6erspan_rcv() (and erspan_rcv()) no longer make sure erspan_base_hdr is present in skb linear part (skb->head) before getting @ver field from it.

Add the missing pskb_may_pull() calls.

v2: Reload iph pointer in erspan_rcv() after pskb_may_pull() because skb->head might have changed.

[1]

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pskb_may_pull_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:2742 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pskb_may_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2756 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ip6erspan_rcv net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:541 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in gre_rcv+0x11f8/0x1930 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:610 pskb_may_pull_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:2742 [inline] pskb_may_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2756 [inline] ip6erspan_rcv net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:541 [inline] gre_rcv+0x11f8/0x1930 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:610 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1d4c/0x2ca0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438 ip6_input_finish net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:483 [inline] NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline] ip6_input+0x15d/0x430 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:492 ip6_mc_input+0xa7e/0xc80 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:586 dst_input include/net/dst.h:460 [inline] ip6_rcv_finish+0x955/0x970 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:79 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline] ipv6_rcv+0xde/0x390 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:310 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5538 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x1da/0xa00 net/core/dev.c:5652 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:5738 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x58/0x660 net/core/dev.c:5798 tun_rx_batched+0x3ee/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1549 tun_get_user+0x5566/0x69e0 drivers/net/tun.c:2002 tun_chr_write_iter+0x3af/0x5d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2048 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2108 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline] vfs_write+0xb63/0x1520 fs/read_write.c:590 ksys_write+0x20f/0x4c0 fs/read_write.c:643 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline] __x64_sys_write+0x93/0xe0 fs/read_write.c:652 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 tun_alloc_skb drivers/net/tun.c:1525 [inline] tun_get_user+0x209a/0x69e0 drivers/net/tun.c:1846 tun_chr_write_iter+0x3af/0x5d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2048 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2108 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline] vfs_write+0xb63/0x1520 fs/read_write.c:590 ksys_write+0x20f/0x4c0 fs/read_write.c:643 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline] __x64_sys_write+0x93/0xe0 fs/read_write.c:652 do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

CPU: 1 PID: 5045 Comm: syz-executor114 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-syzkaller-00021-g962490525cff #0

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