vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-38413): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Nov 20, 2025

Description

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

virtio-net: xsk: rx: fix the frame's length check

When calling buf_to_xdp, the len argument is the frame data's length
without virtio header's length (vi->hdr_len). We check that len with

xsk_pool_get_rx_frame_size() + vi->hdr_len

to ensure the provided len does not larger than the allocated chunk
size. The additional vi->hdr_len is because in virtnet_add_recvbuf_xsk,
we use part of XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM for virtio header and ask the vhost
to start placing data from

hard_start + XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM - vi->hdr_len
not
hard_start + XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM

But the first buffer has virtio_header, so the maximum frame's length in
the first buffer can only be

xsk_pool_get_rx_frame_size()
not
xsk_pool_get_rx_frame_size() + vi->hdr_len

like in the current check.

This commit adds an additional argument to buf_to_xdp differentiate
between the first buffer and other ones to correctly calculate the maximum
frame's length.

Solutions

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