CVE-2025-38571

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.5-6.6.101, 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 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.5.0 - 6.6.102linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.42linux
Linux/Linux < 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.12.42 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.10 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.1 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.5
... and 7 more
Published Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026