CVE-2025-38566

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.4-6.6.101, 6.7-6.12.41, 6.13-6.15.9, 6.16 - Denial of Service via NFS over TLS Alert Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 40.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-754
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.6.102linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.42linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - 25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692
Linux/Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - 3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c
Linux/Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - 6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da
Linux/Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968
Linux/Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b - bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb
... and 8 more
Published Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026