Linux Kernel TCP stack Vulnerability Rated 7.5 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-53184

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

udp: clear skb->dev before running a sockmap verdict

On the UDP receive path skb->dev is repurposed as dev_scratch (the

truesize/state cache set by udp_set_dev_scratch()), through the

union { struct net_device *dev; unsigned long dev_scratch; } in sk_buff.

When a UDP socket is in a sockmap, sk_data_ready is

sk_psock_verdict_data_ready(), which calls udp_read_skb() -> recv_actor()

(sk_psock_verdict_recv) to run the attached SK_SKB verdict program in softirq.

If that program calls a socket-lookup helper (bpf_sk_lookup_tcp/udp,

bpf_skc_lookup_tcp), bpf_skc_lookup() does:

if (skb->dev)

caller_net = dev_net(skb->dev);

skb->dev still holds the dev_scratch value (a non-NULL integer), so dev_net()

dereferences it as a struct net_device * and the kernel takes a general

protection fault on a non-canonical address in softirq:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x1010000800004a0

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1406 Comm: syz.2.19 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(full)

RIP: 0010:bpf_skc_lookup net/core/filter.c:7033 [inline]

RIP: 0010:bpf_sk_lookup+0x45/0x160 net/core/filter.c:7047

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

bpf_prog_4675cb904b7071f8+0x12e/0x14e

bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu+0xc6/0x1f0

sk_psock_verdict_recv+0x1ba/0x350

udp_read_skb+0x31a/0x370

sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0x2e3/0x600

__udp_enqueue_schedule_skb+0x4c8/0x650

udpv6_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x3ec/0x740

udp6_unicast_rcv_skb+0x11d/0x140

ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x61e/0x950

ip6_input_finish+0xa9/0x150

NF_HOOK+0x286/0x2f0

ip6_input+0x117/0x220

NF_HOOK+0x286/0x2f0

__netif_receive_skb+0x85/0x200

process_backlog+0x374/0x9a0

__napi_poll+0x4f/0x1c0

net_rx_action+0x3b0/0x770

handle_softirqs+0x15a/0x460

do_softirq+0x57/0x80

</IRQ>

The rmem charge that dev_scratch accounted for is released by skb_recv_udp() on

dequeue, just above, so the scratch is dead by the time recv_actor() runs. Clear

skb->dev so bpf_skc_lookup() falls back to sock_net(skb->sk), which

skb_set_owner_sk_safe() set just above. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's and Siemens's web pages for any future patch releases.

References