CVE-2025-38566
Published: Aug 19, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - < b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968affected 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - < 25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692affected 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - < 3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9caffected 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - < 6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87daaffected 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - < bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.4unaffected 0 - < 6.4unaffected 6.6.102 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.42 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.10 - <= 6.15.*+2 more versions |
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