CVE-2025-21868

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A remote peer sending traffic to the host reaches it with no local access.\nAC:L - On an affected build the mis-selection is deterministic \u2014 every GRO head allocation takes the page-frag path, with no race, timing window, or memory-layout dependency \u2014 and the attacker only needs to send small packets and drain the socket slowly to pin pages. Per CVSS 3.1 \u00a73.6 the non-default `CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS` value is scored as the assumed vulnerable configuration rather than as attack complexity.\nPR:N - The RX/GRO allocation path runs before any socket-level authentication or authorization; unsolicited packets from an unauthenticated remote host are enough to drive it. No credentials on the target are required.\nUI:N - Packet reception and GRO processing happen automatically in softirq context. No victim action of any kind is needed.\nS:U - The over-consumed memory and the failed accounting both belong to the kernel's own networking subsystem; no security authority boundary such as a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox is crossed.\nC:N - The bug only changes which allocator backs `skb->head`; buffers are still correctly sized and bounded, so no out-of-bounds read or kernel memory disclosure occurs.\nI:N - There is no out-of-bounds write, use-after-free, or type confusion \u2014 allocation sizes remain correct and freeing is consistently routed through `skb_free_frag()` for `head_frag` skbs, so no attacker-controlled data modification is possible.\nA:H - Each ~1.1 KB GRO head pins a slice of a 32 KB order-3 page while reporting a truesize ~23x smaller, so `tcp_mem`, `sk_rmem_alloc` and cgroup socket-memory limits are bypassed and sustained remote small-packet traffic drives the host into memory exhaustion and OOM \u2014 the exact production failure documented in the regressed commit 3226b158e67c. On non-4K-page builds the same condition additionally trips the `WARN_ON_ONCE` in `netif_napi_add_weight_locked()`, which is a boot-time panic under `panic_on_warn`."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["include/net/gro.h", "net/core/gro.c", "net/core/skbuff.c"], "versions": [{"version": "3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71", "lessThan": "ed8a77fee4618facd2a539cad7b7366697b5a575", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71", "lessThan": "ed0ca7d2127c63991cfaf1932b827e3f4f8ee480", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71", "lessThan": "648e440c98e260dec835e48a5d7a9993477b1f9d", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71", "lessThan": "14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["include/net/gro.h", "net/core/gro.c", "net/core/skbuff.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.4", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.4", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.117", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.17", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.13.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.13.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.14", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.4", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.117"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.4", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.17"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.4", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13.5"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.4", "versionEndExcluding": "6.14"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8a77fee4618facd2a539cad7b7366697b5a575"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0ca7d2127c63991cfaf1932b827e3f4f8ee480"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/648e440c98e260dec835e48a5d7a9993477b1f9d"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482"}], "title": "net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48\n RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e\n RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6\n RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c\n R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168\n R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n <TASK>\n gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270\n xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0\n xfrm_init+0x38/0x50\n ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350\n ip_init+0xf/0x20\n inet_init+0x406/0x590\n do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0\n do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280\n kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490\n kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0\n ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n </TASK>\n irq event stamp: 584330\n hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [<ffffffff8168bf87>] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0\n hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [<ffffffff8168bf6c>] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0\n softirqs last enabled at (583242): [<ffffffff833ee96d>] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470\n softirqs last disabled at (583754): [<ffffffff8317c8cd>] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0\n\non kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)\nis smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.\n\nSuch built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache\nso that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering\nthe splat.\n\nNote that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned\nrevert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP\nand GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb()\nto select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: net: permite el uso de cach\u00e9 de cabeza peque\u00f1a con valores MAX_SKB_FRAGS grandes Sabrina inform\u00f3 el siguiente splat: ADVERTENCIA: CPU: 0 PID: 1 en net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 M\u00f3dulos vinculados: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 No contaminado 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996 Nombre del hardware: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 C\u00f3digo: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48 RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6 RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168 R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Rastreo de llamadas: gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270 xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0 xfrm_init+0x38/0x50 ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350 ip_init+0xf/0x20 inet_init+0x406/0x590 do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0 do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280 kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490 kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 marca de evento de irq: 584330 hardirqs habilitados por \u00faltima vez en (584338): [] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0 hardirqs deshabilitados por \u00faltima vez en (584345): [] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0 softirqs habilitados por \u00faltima vez en (583242): [] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470 softirqs deshabilitados por \u00faltima vez en (583754): [] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0 en el kernel creado con MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, donde SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) es menor que GRO_MAX_HEAD. Esta compilaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n incluye la reversi\u00f3n de la cach\u00e9 de fragmentos de p\u00e1gina \u00fanica, de modo que napi_get_frags() termine usando el asignador de fragmentos de p\u00e1gina, lo que activa el splat. Tenga en cuenta que el problema subyacente es independiente de la reversi\u00f3n mencionada; ab\u00f3rdelo asegurando que la cach\u00e9 de encabezado peque\u00f1o se ajuste a la asignaci\u00f3n TCP y GRO, y actualizando napi_alloc_skb() y __netdev_alloc_skb() para seleccionar el uso de kmalloc() para cualquier asignaci\u00f3n que se ajuste a dicha cach\u00e9."}], "id": "CVE-2025-21868", "lastModified": "2026-07-30T06:21:42.160", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 3.9, "impactScore": 3.6, "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "type": "Secondary"}, {"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 5.5, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.8, "impactScore": 3.6, "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}, "published": "2025-03-27T14:15:47.873", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/648e440c98e260dec835e48a5d7a9993477b1f9d"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0ca7d2127c63991cfaf1932b827e3f4f8ee480"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8a77fee4618facd2a539cad7b7366697b5a575"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Modified", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "NVD-CWE-noinfo"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}

{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values", "id": "2355331", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355331"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "5.5", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values\nSabrina reported the following splat:\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\nCode: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48\nRSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e\nRDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6\nRBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c\nR10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168\nR13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\ngro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270\nxfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0\nxfrm_init+0x38/0x50\nip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350\nip_init+0xf/0x20\ninet_init+0x406/0x590\ndo_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0\ndo_initcalls+0x23b/0x280\nkernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490\nkernel_init+0x20/0x1d0\nret_from_fork+0x46/0x80\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n</TASK>\nirq event stamp: 584330\nhardirqs last enabled at (584338): [<ffffffff8168bf87>] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0\nhardirqs last disabled at (584345): [<ffffffff8168bf6c>] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0\nsoftirqs last enabled at (583242): [<ffffffff833ee96d>] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470\nsoftirqs last disabled at (583754): [<ffffffff8317c8cd>] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0\non kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)\nis smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.\nSuch built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache\nso that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering\nthe splat.\nNote that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned\nrevert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP\nand GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb()\nto select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache."], "name": "CVE-2025-21868", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21868\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21868\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032734-CVE-2025-21868-ef4f@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Low"}

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