In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs
skbiserrqueue() treats PACKETOUTGOING as the sole marker for an skb from skerrorqueue. That assumption is not true for AFPACKET sockets: outgoing packet taps are also delivered to packet sockets with skb->pkttype == PACKETOUTGOING, but their skb->cb is owned by AFPACKET instead of struct sockexterrskb.
If such an skb is received with timestamping enabled, the generic timestamp cmsg path can read AFPACKET control-buffer state as sockexterrskb::optstats. With SORXQOVFL enabled, the packet drop counter overlaps optstats. An odd drop count makes the path emit SCMTIMESTAMPINGOPTSTATS with skb->len and skb->data. For non-linear skbs this copies past the linear head and can trigger hardened usercopy or disclose adjacent heap contents.
Keep skbiserrqueue() local to net/socket.c, but make it verify that the PACKETOUTGOING marker is paired with the sockrmemfree destructor installed by sockqueueerrskb(). AFPACKET receive skbs use normal receive ownership and no longer pass as error-queue skbs, while legitimate skerrorqueue entries keep the PACKETOUTGOING marker and sockrmem_free ownership.
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"cna_assigner": "Linux"
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