Bug 2548385 (CVE-2026-98375) - CVE-2026-98375 kernel: xen/netfront: drop RX packets with a short Ethernet header
Summary: CVE-2026-98375 kernel: xen/netfront: drop RX packets with a short Ethernet he...
Keywords:
Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98375
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-10-09 07:41 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 14:59 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-09 07:41:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen/netfront: drop RX packets with a short Ethernet header

handle_incoming_queue() pulls pull_to bytes into the head before
calling eth_type_trans().  pull_to is the length of the first RX slot,
capped at RX_COPY_THRESHOLD, and that length comes from the backend.
Nothing checks it against ETH_HLEN.

If the first slot is shorter than ETH_HLEN and more slots follow, the
head ends up shorter than an Ethernet header while skb->len is longer,
and eth_type_trans() BUG()s in __skb_pull().  If the whole packet is
shorter than ETH_HLEN, eth_type_trans() reads the header past the end
of the data instead.

Pull at least ETH_HLEN, and drop the packet if that fails, which also
drops packets too short to hold an Ethernet header.  This also checks
the return value of the pull, which was ignored.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.