Bug 2532032 (CVE-2026-89555) - CVE-2026-89555 kernel: mpls: reload header after pskb_may_pull()
Summary: CVE-2026-89555 kernel: mpls: reload header after pskb_may_pull()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89555
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-09-11 20:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-14 10:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 20:07:05 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mpls: reload header after pskb_may_pull()

mpls_select_multipath() calls mpls_multipath_hash() to choose a nexthop
when an MPLS route has multiple nexthops.  While walking the MPLS label
stack, the hash routine caches hdr for the current label.  After finding
the bottom-of-stack label, it calls pskb_may_pull() before reading the
inner IP header.

If an skb is constructed with the inner IP header in nonlinear data and
insufficient tailroom in the linear head, pskb_may_pull() calls
pskb_expand_head() to replace the skb head and free the old one.  This
leaves hdr pointing to freed memory.  The IPv6 path can invalidate hdr
again when it performs a second pull for the larger header.

The issue was found through static analysis.  A reproducer sending a legal
Geneve packet through a bareudp/MPLS multipath setup triggered the same
KASAN report in 2 of 2 unpatched runs:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mpls_select_multipath
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800ecc6e20 by task ksoftirqd/1/23

  Call Trace:
   mpls_select_multipath
   mpls_forward
   __netif_receive_skb_list_core
   netif_receive_skb_list_internal
   napi_complete_done
   gro_cell_poll
   __napi_poll
   net_rx_action

  Freed by task 23:
   kfree
   pskb_expand_head
   __pskb_pull_tail
   mpls_select_multipath

Reload hdr from the current skb head after each successful pull before
deriving the inner IPv4 or IPv6 header pointer.


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