CVE-2023-53433

net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper

Medium · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper

Before blamed commit, pskb_may_pull() was used instead

of skb_header_pointer() in __vlan_get_protocol() and friends.

Few callers depended on skb->head being populated with MAC header,

syzbot caught one of them (skb_mac_gso_segment())

Add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() to make the intent clearer

and use it where sensible.

This is a more generic fix than commit e9d3f80935b6

("net/af_packet: make sure to pull mac header") which was

dealing with a similar issue.

kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2655 !

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN

CPU: 0 PID: 1441 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.1.24-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023

RIP: 0010:__skb_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2655 [inline]

RIP: 0010:skb_mac_gso_segment+0x68f/0x6a0 net/core/gro.c:136

Code: fd 48 8b 5c 24 10 44 89 6b 70 48 c7 c7 c0 ae 0d 86 44 89 e6 e8 a1 91 d0 00 48 c7 c7 00 af 0d 86 48 89 de 31 d2 e8 d1 4a e9 ff <0f> 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41

RSP: 0018:ffffc90001bd7520 EFLAGS: 00010286

RAX: ffffffff8469736a RBX: ffff88810f31dac0 RCX: ffff888115a18b00

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000

RBP: ffffc90001bd75e8 R08: ffffffff84697183 R09: fffff5200037adf9

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 0000000000000012

R13: 000000000000fee5 R14: 0000000000005865 R15: 000000000000fed7

FS: 000055555633f300(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000020000000 CR3: 0000000116fea000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

[<ffffffff847018dd>] __skb_gso_segment+0x32d/0x4c0 net/core/dev.c:3419

[<ffffffff8470398a>] skb_gso_segment include/linux/netdevice.h:4819 [inline]

[<ffffffff8470398a>] validate_xmit_skb+0x3aa/0xee0 net/core/dev.c:3725

[<ffffffff84707042>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1332/0x3300 net/core/dev.c:4313

[<ffffffff851a9ec7>] dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 include/linux/netdevice.h:3029

[<ffffffff851b4a82>] packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3111 [inline]

[<ffffffff851b4a82>] packet_sendmsg+0x49d2/0x6470 net/packet/af_packet.c:3142

[<ffffffff84669a12>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]

[<ffffffff84669a12>] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]

[<ffffffff84669a12>] __sys_sendto+0x472/0x5f0 net/socket.c:2139

[<ffffffff84669c75>] __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2151 [inline]

[<ffffffff84669c75>] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2147 [inline]

[<ffffffff84669c75>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2147

[<ffffffff8551d40f>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

[<ffffffff8551d40f>] do_syscall_64+0x2f/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

[<ffffffff85600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-18T16:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 16:04Z
    net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper
    cvelistv5