CVE-2024-43897
CVE-2024-43897CVE-2024-43897
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: drop bad gso csum_start and offset in virtio_net_hdr
Tighten csum_start and csum_offset checks in virtio_net_hdr_to_skb
for GSO packets.
The function already checks that a checksum requested with
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM is in skb linear. But for GSO packets
this might not hold for segs after segmentation.
Syzkaller demonstrated to reach this warning in skb_checksum_help
offset = skb_checksum_start_offset(skb);
ret = -EINVAL;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(offset >= skb_headlen(skb)))
By injecting a TSO packet:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3539 at net/core/dev.c:3284 skb_checksum_help+0x3d0/0x5b0
ip_do_fragment+0x209/0x1b20 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:774
ip_finish_output_gso net/ipv4/ip_output.c:279 [inline]
__ip_finish_output+0x2bd/0x4b0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:301
iptunnel_xmit+0x50c/0x930 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:82
ip_tunnel_xmit+0x2296/0x2c70 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:813
__gre_xmit net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:469 [inline]
ipgre_xmit
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |