CVE-2025-68363

bpf: Check skb->transport_header is set in bpf_skb_check_mtu

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Check skb->transport_header is set in bpf_skb_check_mtu

The bpf_skb_check_mtu helper needs to use skb->transport_header when the BPF_MTU_CHK_SEGS flag is used:

bpf_skb_check_mtu(skb, ifindex, &mtu_len, 0, BPF_MTU_CHK_SEGS)

The transport_header is not always set. There is a WARN_ON_ONCE report when CONFIG_DEBUG_NET is enabled + skb->gso_size is set + bpf_prog_test_run is used:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2216 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3071 skb_gso_validate_network_len bpf_skb_check_mtu bpf_prog_3920e25740a41171_tc_chk_segs_flag # A test in the next patch bpf_test_run bpf_prog_test_run_skb

For a normal ingress skb (not test_run), skb_reset_transport_header is performed but there is plan to avoid setting it as described in commit 2170a1f09148 ("net: no longer reset transport_header in __netif_receive_skb_core()").

This patch fixes the bpf helper by checking skb_transport_header_was_set(). The check is done just before skb->transport_header is used, to avoid breaking the existing bpf prog. The WARN_ON_ONCE is limited to bpf_prog_test_run, so targeting bpf-next.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before b3171a5e4622e915e94599a55f4964078bdec27eAffected
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before 97b876fa88322625228792cf7a5fd77531815a80Affected
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before 30ce906557a21adef4cba5901c8e995dc18263a9Affected
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before 1c30e4afc5507f0069cc09bd561e510e4d97fbf7Affected
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before 942268e2726ac7f16e3ec49dbfbbbe7cf5af9da5Affected
  • 34b2021cc61642d61c3cf943d9e71925b827941b to before d946f3c98328171fa50ddb908593cf833587f725Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 6.1.160 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.120 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.63 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.13 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18.2 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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