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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-08-19 | Updated 2025-09-29 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b before b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968
affected

5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b before 25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692
affected

5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b before 3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c
affected

5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b before 6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da
affected

5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b before bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb
affected

Default status
affected

6.4
affected

Any version before 6.4
unaffected

6.6.102
unaffected

6.12.42
unaffected

6.15.10
unaffected

6.16.1
unaffected

6.17
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968

git.kernel.org/...c/25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692

git.kernel.org/...c/3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c

git.kernel.org/...c/6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da

git.kernel.org/...c/bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb

cve.org (CVE-2025-38566)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-38566)

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