[PATCH] net: fix GTP Tunnel parse out-of-bounds read

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Apr 9 18:15:56 CEST 2026


If packet is fragmented across multiple mbufs or the packet
has only GTP header the code would reference outside
the incoming mbuf.

Send GTP packet:
- Valid GTP header (8 bytes)
- msg_type = 0xff
- e=1, s=1, pn=1 (sets gtp_len = 12)
- Total packet size = 10 bytes

Read at gh + 12 accesses 2 bytes beyond packet end.

The fix is to use rte_pktmbuf_read in a manner similar
to the read of the GTP header.

Fixes: 64ed7f854cf4 ("net: add tunnel packet type parsing")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/net/rte_net.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/net/rte_net.c b/lib/net/rte_net.c
index 458b4814a9..da4018437b 100644
--- a/lib/net/rte_net.c
+++ b/lib/net/rte_net.c
@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@ ptype_tunnel_with_udp(uint16_t *proto, const struct rte_mbuf *m,
 	case RTE_GTPU_UDP_PORT: {
 		const struct rte_gtp_hdr *gh;
 		struct rte_gtp_hdr gh_copy;
-		uint8_t gtp_len;
-		uint8_t ip_ver;
+		uint32_t gtp_len;
 		gh = rte_pktmbuf_read(m, *off, sizeof(*gh), &gh_copy);
 		if (unlikely(gh == NULL))
 			return 0;
@@ -231,9 +230,16 @@ ptype_tunnel_with_udp(uint16_t *proto, const struct rte_mbuf *m,
 		 * Check message type. If message type is 0xff, it is
 		 * a GTP data packet. If not, it is a GTP control packet
 		 */
+		*off += gtp_len;
 		if (gh->msg_type == 0xff) {
-			ip_ver = *(const uint8_t *)((const char *)gh + gtp_len);
-			ip_ver = (ip_ver) & 0xf0;
+			const uint8_t *l3_hdr;
+			uint8_t l3_copy, ip_ver;
+
+			l3_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_read(m, *off, sizeof(*l3_hdr), &l3_copy);
+			if (unlikely(l3_hdr == NULL))
+				return 0;
+
+			ip_ver = *l3_hdr & 0xf0;
 			if (ip_ver == RTE_GTP_TYPE_IPV4)
 				*proto = rte_cpu_to_be_16(RTE_ETHER_TYPE_IPV4);
 			else if (ip_ver == RTE_GTP_TYPE_IPV6)
@@ -243,7 +249,6 @@ ptype_tunnel_with_udp(uint16_t *proto, const struct rte_mbuf *m,
 		} else {
 			*proto = 0;
 		}
-		*off += gtp_len;
 		hdr_lens->inner_l2_len = gtp_len + sizeof(struct rte_udp_hdr);
 		hdr_lens->tunnel_len = gtp_len;
 		if (port_no == RTE_GTPC_UDP_PORT)
-- 
2.53.0



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