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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 1, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 14, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

eth: bnxt: fix truesize for mb-xdp-pass case

When mb-xdp is set and return is XDP_PASS, packet is converted from
xdp_buff to sk_buff with xdp_update_skb_shared_info() in
bnxt_xdp_build_skb().
bnxt_xdp_build_skb() passes incorrect truesize argument to
xdp_update_skb_shared_info().
The truesize is calculated as BNXT_RX_PAGE_SIZE * sinfo->nr_frags but
the skb_shared_info was wiped by napi_build_skb() before.
So it stores sinfo->nr_frags before bnxt_xdp_build_skb() and use it
instead of getting skb_shared_info from xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff().

Splat looks like:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/core/skbuff.c:6072 skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
Modules linked in: xt_nat xt_tcpudp veth af_packet xt_conntrack nft_chain_nat xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink xfrm_user xt_addrtype nft_coms
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #3
RIP: 0010:skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
Code: 4b fd ff ff 49 8b 34 24 40 80 e6 40 0f 84 3d fd ff ff 49 8b 74 24 48 40 f6 c6 01 0f 84 2e fd ff ff 48 8d 4e ff e9 25 fd ff ff <0f> 0b e99
RSP: 0018:ffffb62c4120caa8 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffb62c4120cb14 RCX: 0000000000000ec0
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffa06e5d7dc000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffffa06e5d7ddec0 R08: ffffa06e6120a800 R09: ffffa06e7a119900
R10: 0000000000002310 R11: ffffa06e5d7dcec0 R12: ffffe4360575f740
R13: ffffe43600000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000002
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0755f700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f147b76b0f8 CR3: 00000001615d4000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

? __warn+0x84/0x130
? skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
? report_bug+0x18a/0x1a0
? handle_bug+0x53/0x90
? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
inet_frag_reasm_finish+0x11f/0x2e0
ip_defrag+0x37a/0x900
ip_local_deliver+0x51/0x120
ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x64/0x70
ip_sublist_rcv+0x179/0x210
ip_list_rcv+0xf9/0x130

How to reproduce:

ip link set $interface1 xdp obj xdp_pass.o
ip link set $interface1 mtu 9000 up
ip a a 10.0.0.1/24 dev $interface1

ip link set $interfac2 mtu 9000 up
ip a a 10.0.0.2/24 dev $interface2
ping 10.0.0.1 -s 65000

Following ping.py patch adds xdp-mb-pass case. so ping.py is going to be
able to reproduce this issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 1, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 1, 2025
Last updated Apr 14, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(1st percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21961

GHSA ID

GHSA-v974-f78x-v6pq

Source code

No known source code

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