CVE-2025-38566 (GCVE-0-2025-38566)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:02 – Updated: 2025-09-29 05:53
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Title
sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts Scott Mayhew discovered a security exploit in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv() due to its assumption it can read data from the msg iterator's kvec.. kTLS implementation splits TLS non-data record payload between the control message buffer (which includes the type such as TLS aler or TLS cipher change) and the rest of the payload (say TLS alert's level/description) which goes into the msg payload buffer. This patch proposes to rework how control messages are setup and used by sock_recvmsg(). If no control message structure is setup, kTLS layer will read and process TLS data record types. As soon as it encounters a TLS control message, it would return an error. At that point, NFS can setup a kvec backed msg buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS alert. Msg iterator can advance the kvec pointer as a part of the copy process thus we need to revert the iterator before calling into the tls_alert_recv.
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Linux Linux Affected: 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b , < b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968 (git)
Affected: 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b , < 25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692 (git)
Affected: 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b , < 3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c (git)
Affected: 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b , < 6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da (git)
Affected: 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b , < bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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