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CVE-2025-38566

Critical · CVSS 9.8
CVSS
9.8
nvd
EPSS
KEV
No
Class
oss containerizable
CWE-754

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.

Affected packages

Linux Kernel 6.13.0 → 6.15.10
Linux Kernel 6.16.0 → 6.16.1
Linux Kernel 6.4.0 → 6.6.102
Linux Kernel 6.7.0 → 6.12.42

References

Status: profiled · ingested 2026-07-30T12:00:00.000Z