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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 15, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-57901

CVE-2024-57901

Description

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

af_packet: fix vlan_get_protocol_dgram() vs MSG_PEEK

Blamed commit forgot MSG_PEEK case, allowing a crash [1] as found by syzbot.

Rework vlan_get_protocol_dgram() to not touch skb at all, so that it can be used from many cpus on the same skb.

Add a const qualifier to skb argument.

[1] skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8a8ccd05 len:29 put:14 head:ffff88807fc8e400 data:ffff88807fc8e3f4 tail:0x11 end:0x140 dev: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 ! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5892 Comm: syz-executor883 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc4-syzkaller-00054-gd6ef8b40d075 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:206 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_under_panic+0x14b/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:216 Code: 0b 8d 48 c7 c6 86 d5 25 8e 48 8b 54 24 08 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 41 54 41 57 41 56 e8 5a 69 79 f7 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 RSP: 0018:ffffc900038d7638 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000087 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 609ffd18ea660600 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88802483c8d0 R08: ffffffff817f0a8c R09: 1ffff9200071ae60 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200071ae61 R12: 0000000000000140 R13: ffff88807fc8e400 R14: ffff88807fc8e3f4 R15: 0000000000000011 FS: 00007fbac5e006c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fbac5e00d58 CR3: 000000001238e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace:

skb_push+0xe5/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:2636 vlan_get_protocol_dgram+0x165/0x290 net/packet/af_packet.c:585 packet_recvmsg+0x948/0x1ef0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3552 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1033 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x22f/0x280 net/socket.c:1055 ____sys_recvmsg+0x1c6/0x480 net/socket.c:2803 ___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2845 [inline] do_recvmmsg+0x426/0xab0 net/socket.c:2940 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3014 [inline] __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3037 [inline] __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3030 [inline] __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x199/0x250 net/socket.c:3030 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_packet module allows a crash via MSG_PEEK due to improper handling in vlan_get_protocol_dgram().

Vulnerability

Description

The vulnerability resides in the vlan_get_protocol_dgram() function in the Linux kernel's af_packet module. When MSG_PEEK is used, the function incorrectly manipulates the socket buffer (skb), leading to a skb_under_panic crash [1]. The root cause is that the original code did not account for the MSG_PEEK case, causing the skb to be modified in a way that triggers a buffer underflow.

Exploitation

An unprivileged user can trigger this vulnerability by sending a crafted packet and then performing a recvmsg() operation with the MSG_PEEK flag on a PF_PACKET socket. No special privileges or network access beyond local socket creation is required. The bug is reproducible on Linux kernel versions prior to the fix; syzbot has demonstrated a proof-of-concept crash [1].

Impact

Successful exploitation leads to a kernel panic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) of the affected system. The crash is characterized by a BUG in skb_under_panic at net/core/skbuff.c:206. No privilege escalation or data breach is expected, but the system becomes unavailable.

Mitigation

The fix reworks vlan_get_protocol_dgram() to avoid touching the skb at all, adding a const qualifier to the skb argument. The patch has been applied to the Linux kernel stable branches, as seen in commits [3] and [4]. Users should update their kernels to include these commits.

References
  1. SSA-398330
  2. Making sure you're not a bot!
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AI Insight generated on May 20, 2026. Synthesized from this CVE's description and the cited reference URLs; citations are validated against the source bundle.

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Patches

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