Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: clsu32: use skbheaderpointercareful skbheaderpointer does not fully validate negative @offset values. Use skbheaderpointercareful instead. GangMin Kim provided a report and a reproduction example for u32classify: Bug:...

kernel: net/sched: cls_u32: use skb_header_pointer_careful()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: clsu32: use skbheaderpointercareful skbheaderpointer does not fully validate negative @offset values. Use skbheaderpointercareful instead. GangMin Kim provided a report and a repro fooling u32classify: BUG: KASAN:...

kernel: net/sched: cls_u32: use skb_header_pointer_careful()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: clsu32: use skbheaderpointercareful skbheaderpointer does not fully validate negative @offset values. Use skbheaderpointercareful instead. GangMin Kim provided a report and a repro fooling u32classify: BUG: KASAN:...

CVE-2026-23204

CVE-2026-23204 affects the Linux kernel net/sched cls_u32. The root cause is that skb_header_pointer() does not fully validate negative @offset values, enabling a slab-out-of-bounds condition in u32_classify() (reported as BUG: KASAN). The fix replaces skb_header_pointer() with skb_header_pointer...