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CVE-2025-38566

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
47th
EPSS percentile
2025-08-19
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-754

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.4, < 6.6.102
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7, < 6.12.42
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13, < 6.15.10
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.16, < 6.16.1
linuxlinux_kernel6.17

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