Bug 2516478 (CVE-2026-72407) - CVE-2026-72407 kernel: geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()
Summary: CVE-2026-72407 kernel: geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_co...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72407
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 15:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:14:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()

Even with both paths gated on gs->gro_hint, geneve_gro_complete()
re-derives the inner dispatch type and length from the packet and the
current gs->gro_hint, independently of geneve_gro_receive(). The two can
disagree if gs->gro_hint flips under a concurrent geneve_quiesce()/
geneve_unquiesce() (sk_user_data is NULL across a synchronize_net()), or if
the re-read option bytes differ from the ones receive parsed.

geneve_gro_receive() already records the inner network header position in
NAPI_GRO_CB()->inner_network_offset. Have geneve_gro_complete() compute the
offset it is about to dispatch at, adding ETH_HLEN in the ETH_P_TEB case
where eth_gro_complete() steps over the inner MAC header, and bail out if
it lands past inner_network_offset.

Use a lower bound rather than exact equality: between gh_len and the inner
L3 header, geneve_gro_receive() may also have pulled an inner VLAN tag
(vlan_gro_receive() advances the recorded offset past it), which only moves
inner_network_offset further out. A valid frame therefore always satisfies
inner_nh <= inner_network_offset, while a gh_len inflated by a hint
gro_receive() did not honour dispatches past the validated inner header,
i.e. the out-of-bounds completion. Only the latter is rejected.


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