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CVE-2022-49975 (GCVE-0-2022-49975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:10
VLAI
Title
bpf: Don't redirect packets with invalid pkt_len
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Don't redirect packets with invalid pkt_len Syzbot found an issue [1]: fq_codel_drop() try to drop a flow whitout any skbs, that is, the flow->head is null. The root cause, as the [2] says, is because that bpf_prog_test_run_skb() run a bpf prog which redirects empty skbs. So we should determine whether the length of the packet modified by bpf prog or others like bpf_prog_test is valid before forwarding it directly.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5293efe62df81908f2e90c9820c7edcc8e61f5e9 , < 8b68e53d56697a59b5c53893b53f508bbdf272a0 (git)
Affected: 5293efe62df81908f2e90c9820c7edcc8e61f5e9 , < 6204bf78b2a903b96ba43afff6abc0b04d6e0462 (git)
Affected: 5293efe62df81908f2e90c9820c7edcc8e61f5e9 , < a75987714bd2d8e59840667a28e15c1fa5c47554 (git)
Affected: 5293efe62df81908f2e90c9820c7edcc8e61f5e9 , < 72f2dc8993f10262092745a88cb2dd0fef094f23 (git)
Affected: 5293efe62df81908f2e90c9820c7edcc8e61f5e9 , < fd1894224407c484f652ad456e1ce423e89bb3eb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.212 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.141 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.65 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.7 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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