CVE-2026-53235

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

net: add pskb_may_pull() to skb_gro_receive_list()

skb_gro_receive_list() calls skb_pull(skb, skb_gro_offset(skb)) without first ensuring the data is in the linear area via pskb_may_pull(). When the skb arrives via napi_gro_frags(), skb_headlen can be 0 (all data in page fragments) while skb_gro_offset is non-zero (after IP+TCP header parsing). The skb_pull() then decrements skb->len by skb_gro_offset but skb->data_len stays unchanged, hitting BUG_ON(skb->len < skb->data_len) in __skb_pull().

The UDP fraglist GRO path already contains this guard at udp_offload.c:749. Adding it to skb_gro_receive_list() itself provides centralized protection for all callers (TCP, UDP, and any future protocols), and ensures the precondition of skb_pull() is satisfied before it is called.

On pskb_may_pull() failure, set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush = 1 so the skb is not held as a new GRO head and is instead delivered through the normal receive path, matching the UDP handling.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cde3a004119db637b401c54e77536e4145fc0b4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/848571dcbbbea7ba44dd4f7ebe1fbb274afe08ac
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e636c995b7beeb74ea882968248752821c244c4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2bb3434544454099a5b6dec213567267b05d79d