CVE-2026-99033
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt() packet_rcv_spkt() restores the link layer header with skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb)); That subtraction is only meaningful when the device actually has a link layer header. packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() both wrap it in dev_has_header(), which is also the predicate the block comment at the top of the file states the restore in terms of; packet_rcv_spkt() does not. commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header") introduced the helper and changed the two call sites, and this one stayed behind. A device without a visible ll header can leave skb->mac_header at the 0xFFFF sentinel that __alloc_skb() initialises it to. A CAN skb does: init_can_skb() sets pkt_type and ip_summed but does not reset the headers, and commit 9f10374bb024 ("can: remove private CAN skb headroom infrastructure") dropped the skb_reset_*_header() calls that used to be there. skb_mac_header() is then 0xFFFF, the length becomes a large negative number and skb_push() reports it through skb_under_panic() -- from softirq context, so it is a full system panic even with panic_on_oops=0: skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8bd21bc1 len:-65455 put:-65471 head:... data:... tail:0x50 end:0x180 dev:can0 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214! RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x50/0x60 Call Trace: <IRQ> skb_push+0x38/0x40 packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1/0x170 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x7e8/0xd30 ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt The socket type is reachable: packet_create() accepts SOCK_PACKET alongside SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM behind the same CAP_NET_RAW check, and neither the socket length nor a capability check keeps it away from a CAN interface. The missing skb_reset_*_header() calls in init_can_skb() are a regression in their own right and are being fixed separately, but a packet socket should not turn a link layer that did not initialise its mac header into a kernel panic. Guard the push the way the other two receive paths do. Tested on v7.3-rc5 under QEMU with a slcan device on a pty, which is the driver RX path: vcan does not reproduce it, because can_send() resets the headers on the way out. One SOCK_PACKET socket bound to can0 and one frame written into the line discipline panics an unpatched kernel with the trace above; the same image with this patch prints no panic and powers off normally. Both kernels are this tree, defconfig plus CONFIG_CAN_SLCAN=y, differing only in this hunk.
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"id": "CVE-2026-99033",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-10-23T13:17:26.443",
"lastModified": "2026-10-30T13:21:40.243",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt()\n\npacket_rcv_spkt() restores the link layer header with\n\n\tskb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));\n\nThat subtraction is only meaningful when the device actually has a link\nlayer header. packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() both wrap it in\ndev_has_header(), which is also the predicate the block comment at the\ntop of the file states the restore in terms of; packet_rcv_spkt() does\nnot. commit d549699048b4 (\"net/packet: fix packet receive on L3\ndevices without visible hard header\") introduced the helper and changed\nthe two call sites, and this one stayed behind.\n\nA device without a visible ll header can leave skb->mac_header at the\n0xFFFF sentinel that __alloc_skb() initialises it to. A CAN skb does:\ninit_can_skb() sets pkt_type and ip_summed but does not reset the\nheaders, and commit 9f10374bb024 (\"can: remove private CAN skb\nheadroom infrastructure\") dropped the skb_reset_*_header() calls that\nused to be there. skb_mac_header() is then 0xFFFF, the length becomes\na large negative number and skb_push() reports it through\nskb_under_panic() -- from softirq context, so it is a full system panic\neven with panic_on_oops=0:\n\n skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8bd21bc1 len:-65455 put:-65471 head:... data:... tail:0x50 end:0x180 dev:can0\n kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x50/0x60\n Call Trace:\n <IRQ>\n skb_push+0x38/0x40\n packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1/0x170\n __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x7e8/0xd30\n ...\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nThe socket type is reachable: packet_create() accepts SOCK_PACKET\nalongside SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM behind the same CAP_NET_RAW check,\nand neither the socket length nor a capability check keeps it away\nfrom a CAN interface.\n\nThe missing skb_reset_*_header() calls in init_can_skb() are a\nregression in their own right and are being fixed separately, but a\npacket socket should not turn a link layer that did not initialise its\nmac header into a kernel panic. Guard the push the way the other two\nreceive paths do.\n\nTested on v7.3-rc5 under QEMU with a slcan device on a pty, which is\nthe driver RX path: vcan does not reproduce it, because can_send()\nresets the headers on the way out. One SOCK_PACKET socket bound to\ncan0 and one frame written into the line discipline panics an\nunpatched kernel with the trace above; the same image with this patch\nprints no panic and powers off normally. Both kernels are this tree,\ndefconfig plus CONFIG_CAN_SLCAN=y, differing only in this hunk."
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