Bug 2429095 (CVE-2025-71098) - CVE-2025-71098 kernel: ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust
Summary: CVE-2025-71098 kernel: ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71098
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: 2026-01-13 16:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-14 23:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-13 16:06:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust

Over the years, syzbot found many ways to crash the kernel
in ip6gre_header() [1].

This involves team or bonding drivers ability to dynamically
change their dev->needed_headroom and/or dev->hard_header_len

In this particular crash mld_newpack() allocated an skb
with a too small reserve/headroom, and by the time mld_sendpack()
was called, syzbot managed to attach an ip6gre device.

[1]
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8a1d69a8 len:136 put:40 head:ffff888059bc7000 data:ffff888059bc6fe8 tail:0x70 end:0x6c0 dev:team0
------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:213 !
 <TASK>
  skb_under_panic net/core/skbuff.c:223 [inline]
  skb_push+0xc3/0xe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2641
  ip6gre_header+0xc8/0x790 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:1371
  dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
  neigh_connected_output+0x286/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1618
  neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:556 [inline]
  ip6_finish_output2+0xfb3/0x1480 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136
 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:-1 [inline]
  ip6_finish_output+0x234/0x7d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:220
  NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
  ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
  NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693


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