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CVE-2026-90054NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit
On the normal xmit path, while in urgent mode we refuse to build a
multi-segment TSO packet, so every segment gets its own urg_ptr:
/* tcp_write_xmit() */
limit = mss_now;
if (tso_segs > 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp))
limit = tcp_mss_split_point(...);
The retransmit path has no such guard. __tcp_retransmit_skb() builds a
segs > 1 skb and hands it to the GSO layer, which only advances th->seq
per segment and copies urg_ptr verbatim:
/* __tcp_retransmit_skb() */
len = cur_mss * segs; /* segs > 1, no urg_mode check */
...
/* tcp_gso_segment(): bumps seq only, urg_ptr is copied */
urg_ptr is an offset from the segment's own seq, so a copied value points
at a different place on each segment. The receiver rebuilds the absolute
urgent seq as seg.seq + urg_ptr, so it walks a moving urgent point instead
of the one OOB byte:
seg1 seq 1 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 5001 (ok)
seg2 seq 1001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 6001 (wrong, +MSS)
seg3 seq 2001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 7001 (wrong, +2*MSS)
The real OOB byte is never pointed at, so the receiver stops splicing it
out and delivers it as normal in-band data, corrupting the stream.
Guard the retransmit length like the xmit path: keep segs = 1 while in
urgent mode.
tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit
On the normal xmit path, while in urgent mode we refuse to build a
multi-segment TSO packet, so every segment gets its own urg_ptr:
/* tcp_write_xmit() */
limit = mss_now;
if (tso_segs > 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp))
limit = tcp_mss_split_point(...);
The retransmit path has no such guard. __tcp_retransmit_skb() builds a
segs > 1 skb and hands it to the GSO layer, which only advances th->seq
per segment and copies urg_ptr verbatim:
/* __tcp_retransmit_skb() */
len = cur_mss * segs; /* segs > 1, no urg_mode check */
...
/* tcp_gso_segment(): bumps seq only, urg_ptr is copied */
urg_ptr is an offset from the segment's own seq, so a copied value points
at a different place on each segment. The receiver rebuilds the absolute
urgent seq as seg.seq + urg_ptr, so it walks a moving urgent point instead
of the one OOB byte:
seg1 seq 1 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 5001 (ok)
seg2 seq 1001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 6001 (wrong, +MSS)
seg3 seq 2001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 7001 (wrong, +2*MSS)
The real OOB byte is never pointed at, so the receiver stops splicing it
out and delivers it as normal in-band data, corrupting the stream.
Guard the retransmit length like the xmit path: keep segs = 1 while in
urgent mode.
Affected & Patched Versions
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < 8eb51013b6308870479a64b4a2a018697b997849
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < 711bfd762bec05fb19bc3b17cbb157c39f4e66da
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < 3d4e005c198dc410ad568f832bffa7569c059ff8
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < 4fd2ee4ac154c204d95d8db72221446dac5af9b8
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < ebe55406404f3cb28e36d2b668e2c6c05026ec29
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < b8f08a94b2a4addc39249dcf9c792e786108621b
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < 47eb90299e6882d6445672530dd7c51ac33ebdbd
- Linux Linux >= 10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6 and < ce2b807f42ed5e55567b8864ab72963f90779270
- Linux Linux >= 4.7
- Linux Linux 8eb51013b6308870479a64b4a2a018697b997849
- Linux Linux 711bfd762bec05fb19bc3b17cbb157c39f4e66da
- Linux Linux 3d4e005c198dc410ad568f832bffa7569c059ff8
- Linux Linux 4fd2ee4ac154c204d95d8db72221446dac5af9b8
- Linux Linux ebe55406404f3cb28e36d2b668e2c6c05026ec29
- Linux Linux b8f08a94b2a4addc39249dcf9c792e786108621b
- Linux Linux 47eb90299e6882d6445672530dd7c51ac33ebdbd
- Linux Linux ce2b807f42ed5e55567b8864ab72963f90779270
External References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8eb51013b6308870479a64b4a2a018697b997849
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/711bfd762bec05fb19bc3b17cbb157c39f4e66da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d4e005c198dc410ad568f832bffa7569c059ff8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fd2ee4ac154c204d95d8db72221446dac5af9b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebe55406404f3cb28e36d2b668e2c6c05026ec29
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8f08a94b2a4addc39249dcf9c792e786108621b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47eb90299e6882d6445672530dd7c51ac33ebdbd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce2b807f42ed5e55567b8864ab72963f90779270