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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 15, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 15, 2025

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Affected versions

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Patched versions

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Description

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

net: preserve skb_end_offset() in skb_unclone_keeptruesize()

syzbot found another way to trigger the infamous WARN_ON_ONCE(delta < len)
in skb_try_coalesce() [1]

I was able to root cause the issue to kfence.

When kfence is in action, the following assertion is no longer true:

int size = xxxx;
void *ptr1 = kmalloc(size, gfp);
void *ptr2 = kmalloc(size, gfp);

if (ptr1 && ptr2)
ASSERT(ksize(ptr1) == ksize(ptr2));

We attempted to fix these issues in the blamed commits, but forgot
that TCP was possibly shifting data after skb_unclone_keeptruesize()
has been used, notably from tcp_retrans_try_collapse().

So we not only need to keep same skb->truesize value,
we also need to make sure TCP wont fill new tailroom
that pskb_expand_head() was able to get from a
addr = kmalloc(...) followed by ksize(addr)

Split skb_unclone_keeptruesize() into two parts:

  1. Inline skb_unclone_keeptruesize() for the common case,
    when skb is not cloned.

  2. Out of line __skb_unclone_keeptruesize() for the 'slow path'.

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6490 at net/core/skbuff.c:5295 skb_try_coalesce+0x1235/0x1560 net/core/skbuff.c:5295
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 6490 Comm: syz-executor161 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller-00229-g4f12b742eb2b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:skb_try_coalesce+0x1235/0x1560 net/core/skbuff.c:5295
Code: bf 01 00 00 00 0f b7 c0 89 c6 89 44 24 20 e8 62 24 4e fa 8b 44 24 20 83 e8 01 0f 85 e5 f0 ff ff e9 87 f4 ff ff e8 cb 20 4e fa <0f> 0b e9 06 f9 ff ff e8 af b2 95 fa e9 69 f0 ff ff e8 95 b2 95 fa
RSP: 0018:ffffc900063af268 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000ffffffd5 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88806fc05700 RSI: ffffffff872abd55 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffff88806e675500 R08: 00000000ffffffd5 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff872ab659 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88806dd554e8
R13: ffff88806dd9bac0 R14: ffff88806dd9a2c0 R15: 0000000000000155
FS: 00007f18014f9700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020002000 CR3: 000000006be7a000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

tcp_try_coalesce net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4651 [inline]
tcp_try_coalesce+0x393/0x920 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4630
tcp_queue_rcv+0x8a/0x6e0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4914
tcp_data_queue+0x11fd/0x4bb0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5025
tcp_rcv_established+0x81e/0x1ff0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5947
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x65e/0x980 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1719
sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1037 [inline]
__release_sock+0x134/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2779
release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3311
sk_wait_data+0x177/0x450 net/core/sock.c:2821
tcp_recvmsg_locked+0xe28/0x1fd0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2457
tcp_recvmsg+0x137/0x610 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2572
inet_recvmsg+0x11b/0x5e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:850
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:948 [inline]
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:966 [inline]
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:962 [inline]
____sys_recvmsg+0x2c4/0x600 net/socket.c:2632
___sys_recvmsg+0x127/0x200 net/socket.c:2674
__sys_recvmsg+0xe2/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2704
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 15, 2025
Last updated Oct 15, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(23rd percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49142

GHSA ID

GHSA-62rq-h65m-5cww

Source code

No known source code

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