bpf: Scrub packet on bpf_redirect_peer (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-37959
CRITICAL 9.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.38 % · percentile 32 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Scrub packet on bpf_redirect_peer When bpf_redirect_peer is used to redirect packets to a device in another network namespace, the skb isn't scrubbed. That can lead skb information from one namespace to be "misused" in another namespace. As one example, this is causing Cilium to drop traffic when using bpf_redirect_peer to redirect packets that just went through IPsec decryption to a container namespace. The following pwru trace shows (1) the packet path from the host's XFRM layer to the container's XFRM layer where it's dropped and (2) the number of active skb extensions at each function. NETNS MARK IFACE TUPLE FUNC 4026533547 d00 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 xfrm_rcv_cb .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026533547 d00 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 xfrm4_rcv_cb .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026533547 d00 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 gro_cells_receive .active_extensions = (__u8)2, [...] 4026533547 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 skb_do_redirect .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 ip_rcv .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 ip_rcv_core .active_extensions = (__u8)2, [...] 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 udp_queue_rcv_one_skb .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 __xfrm_policy_check .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 __xfrm_decode_session .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 security_xfrm_decode_session .active_extensions = (__u8)2, 4026534999 0 eth0 10.244.3.124:35473->10.244.2.158:53 kfree_skb_reason(SKB_DROP_REASON_XFRM_POLICY) .active_extensions = (__u8)2, In this case, there are no XFRM policies in the container's network namespace so the drop is unexpected. When we decrypt the IPsec packet, the XFRM state used for decryption is set in the skb extensions. This information is preserved across the netns switch. When we reach the XFRM policy check in the container's netns, __xfrm_policy_check drops the packet with LINUX_MIB_XFRMINNOPOLS because a (container-side) XFRM policy can't be found that matches the (host-side) XFRM state used for decryption. This patch fixes this by scrubbing the packet when using bpf_redirect_peer, as is done on typical netns switches via veth devices except skb->mark and skb->tstamp are not zeroed.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9aa1206e8f48222f35a0c809f33b2f4aaa1e2661 < de1067cc8cf0e8c11ae20cbe5c467aef19d04ded ; affected 9aa1206e8f48222f35a0c809f33b2f4aaa1e2661 < 355b0526336c0bf2bf7feaca033568ede524f763 ; affected 9aa1206e8f48222f35a0c809f33b2f4aaa1e2661 < b37e54259cab4f78b53953d6f6268b85f07bef3e ; affected 9aa1206e8f48222f35a0c809f33b2f4aaa1e2661 < 9e15ef33ba39fb6d9d1f51445957f16983a9437a ; affected 9aa1206e8f48222f35a0c809f33b2f4aaa1e2661 < c4327229948879814229b46aa26a750718888503
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.10 ; unaffected 0 < 5.10 ; unaffected 6.1.139 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.91 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.29 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.14.7 ≤ 6.14.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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