From: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>
To: horms@verge.net.au, ja@ssi.bg, pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
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Cc: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>,
Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>,
Dominik 'Disconnect3d' Czarnota
<dominik.czarnota@trailofbits.com>,
phil@nwl.cc, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipvs: clear IPv4 options after rebasing tunnel ICMP errors
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:08:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731140822.567128-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com> (raw)
ip_vs_in_icmp() rebases an skb from the outer ICMP packet to the
quoted original request before passing it to icmp_send(). However,
IPCB(skb)->opt still describes the outer IPv4 header.
A timestamp option in the outer header can therefore leave an offset
that points into the quoted transport header after the rebase.
__ip_options_echo() treats a byte at that stale location as the option
length and copies it into the fixed-size option storage on the
__icmp_send() stack, causing a stack out-of-bounds write.
Clear the stale option metadata after resetting the network header.
Keep the remaining control block fields, including the ingress
interface used by the ICMP response path.
Fixes: f2edb9f7706d ("ipvs: implement passive PMTUD for IPIP packets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Bug found and triaged by OpenAI Security Research and
validated by Trail of Bits.
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
---
Trail of Bits has a reproducer for this bug that triggers a
KASAN stack-out-of-bounds write in __ip_options_echo() and can share if needed.
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index bafab9345..fe06c380c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ ip_vs_in_icmp(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb, int *related,
if (pskb_pull(skb, offset2) == NULL)
goto ignore_tunnel;
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
+ memset(&(IPCB(skb)->opt), 0, sizeof(IPCB(skb)->opt));
/* Ensure the IP header is present in headroom */
if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, hlen_orig))
goto ignore_tunnel;
--
2.53.0
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