linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54094: net: prevent skb corruption on frag list segmentation

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Message-ID: <2025122408-CVE-2023-54094-e8ce@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:06:51 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54094: net: prevent skb corruption on frag list segmentation

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

net: prevent skb corruption on frag list segmentation

Ian reported several skb corruptions triggered by rx-gro-list,
collecting different oops alike:

[   62.624003] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c0
[   62.631083] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[   62.636312] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[   62.641541] PGD 0 P4D 0
[   62.644174] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[   62.648629] CPU: 1 PID: 913 Comm: napi/eno2-79 Not tainted 6.4.0 #364
[   62.655162] Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/A2SDi-12C-HLN4F, BIOS 1.7a 10/13/2022
[   62.663344] RIP: 0010:__udp_gso_segment (./include/linux/skbuff.h:2858
./include/linux/udp.h:23 net/ipv4/udp_offload.c:228 net/ipv4/udp_offload.c:261
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c:277)
[   62.687193] RSP: 0018:ffffbd3a83b4f868 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   62.692515] RAX: 00000000000000ce RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   62.699743] RDX: ffffa124def8a000 RSI: 0000000000000079 RDI: ffffa125952a14d4
[   62.706970] RBP: ffffa124def8a000 R08: 0000000000000022 R09: 00002000001558c9
[   62.714199] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000be554639 R12: 00000000000000e2
[   62.721426] R13: ffffa125952a1400 R14: ffffa125952a1400 R15: 00002000001558c9
[   62.728654] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa127efa40000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   62.736852] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   62.742702] CR2: 00000000000000c0 CR3: 00000001034b0000 CR4: 00000000003526e0
[   62.749948] Call Trace:
[   62.752498]  <TASK>
[   62.779267] inet_gso_segment (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1398)
[   62.787605] skb_mac_gso_segment (net/core/gro.c:141)
[   62.791906] __skb_gso_segment (net/core/dev.c:3403 (discriminator 2))
[   62.800492] validate_xmit_skb (./include/linux/netdevice.h:4862
net/core/dev.c:3659)
[   62.804695] validate_xmit_skb_list (net/core/dev.c:3710)
[   62.809158] sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:330)
[   62.813198] __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3805 net/core/dev.c:4210)
net/netfilter/core.c:626)
[   62.821093] br_dev_queue_push_xmit (net/bridge/br_forward.c:55)
[   62.825652] maybe_deliver (net/bridge/br_forward.c:193)
[   62.829420] br_flood (net/bridge/br_forward.c:233)
[   62.832758] br_handle_frame_finish (net/bridge/br_input.c:215)
[   62.837403] br_handle_frame (net/bridge/br_input.c:298
net/bridge/br_input.c:416)
[   62.851417] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:5387)
[   62.866114] __netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:5570)
[   62.871367] netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:5638
net/core/dev.c:5727)
[   62.876795] napi_complete_done (./include/linux/list.h:37
./include/net/gro.h:434 ./include/net/gro.h:429 net/core/dev.c:6067)
[   62.881004] ixgbe_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c:3191)
[   62.893534] __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6498)
[   62.897133] napi_threaded_poll (./include/linux/netpoll.h:89
net/core/dev.c:6640)
[   62.905276] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:379)
[   62.913435] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:314)
[   62.917119]  </TASK>

In the critical scenario, rx-gro-list GRO-ed packets are fed, via a
bridge, both to the local input path and to an egress device (tun).

The segmentation of such packets unsafely writes to the cloned skbs
with shared heads.

This change addresses the issue by uncloning as needed the
to-be-segmented skbs.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54094 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596 and fixed in 5.10.188 with commit bc3ab5d2ab69823f5cff89cf74ef78ffa0386c9a
	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596 and fixed in 5.15.121 with commit ea438eed94ac0fe69b93ac034738823c0e989a12
	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596 and fixed in 6.1.40 with commit 1731234e8b60063eae858c77b55c7a88f5084353
	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596 and fixed in 6.4.5 with commit 7a59f29961cf97b98b02acaadf5a0b1f8dde938c
	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596 and fixed in 6.5 with commit c329b261afe71197d9da83c1f18eb45a7e97e089

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-54094
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/core/skbuff.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc3ab5d2ab69823f5cff89cf74ef78ffa0386c9a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea438eed94ac0fe69b93ac034738823c0e989a12
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1731234e8b60063eae858c77b55c7a88f5084353
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a59f29961cf97b98b02acaadf5a0b1f8dde938c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c329b261afe71197d9da83c1f18eb45a7e97e089