In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()
After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using
skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff
RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67
R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
[] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline]
[] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline]
[] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660
[] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324
[] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline]
[] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
[] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
[] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline]
[] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline]
[] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701
[] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
[] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it