CVE-2025-22055: net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow

Description

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

net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow

struct geneve_opt uses 5 bit length for each single option, which
means every vary size option should be smaller than 128 bytes.

However, all current related Netlink policies cannot promise this
length condition and the attacker can exploit a exact 128-byte size
option to *fake* a zero length option and confuse the parsing logic,
further achieve heap out-of-bounds read.

One example crash log is like below:

[ 3.905425] ==================================================================
[ 3.905925] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.906255] Read of size 124 at addr ffff888005f291cc by task poc/177
[ 3.906646]
[ 3.906775] CPU: 0 PID: 177 Comm: poc-oob-read Not tainted 6.1.132 #1
[ 3.907131] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 3.907784] Call Trace:
[ 3.907925]
[ 3.908048] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[ 3.908258] print_report+0x184/0x4be
[ 3.909151] kasan_report+0xc5/0x100
[ 3.909539] kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0
[ 3.909794] memcpy+0x1f/0x60
[ 3.909968] nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.910147] tunnel_key_dump+0x945/0xba0
[ 3.911536] tcf_action_dump_1+0x1c1/0x340
[ 3.912436] tcf_action_dump+0x101/0x180
[ 3.912689] tcf_exts_dump+0x164/0x1e0
[ 3.912905] fw_dump+0x18b/0x2d0
[ 3.913483] tcf_fill_node+0x2ee/0x4...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22055

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.92% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

Timeline

2025-04-16 15:40:31 UTC
CVE

net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow