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CVE-2025-38571

sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.102, 6.12.42, 6.15.10, 6.16.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts A security exploit was discovered in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv due to its assumption that there is valid data in the msghdr's iterator's kvec. Instead, this patch proposes the 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 control buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS alert. Scott found that a 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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f · fixed in a55b3d15331859d9fdd261cfa6d34ca2aeb0fb95; From dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f · fixed in c36b2fbd60e8f9c6f975522130998608880c93be; From dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f · fixed in 3ee397eaaca4fa04db21bb98c8f1d0c6cc525368; From dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f · fixed in 3feada5baf4dc96e151ff2ca54630e1d274e5458; From dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f · fixed in cc5d59081fa26506d02de2127ab822f40d88bc5a

  • Linux Linux

    6.5

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.5.0 · fixed in 6.6.102; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.42; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.15.10; From 6.16.0 · fixed in 6.16.1

References 5

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