CVE-2025-39946
CRITICALLinux Kernel 6.0-6.1.153, 6.2-6.6.107, 6.7-6.12.48, 6.13-6.16.8 - Denial of Service via TLS Stream Header Parsing
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2025-39946. PoCs published by farazsth98.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2025-39946, targeting a Linux kernel vulnerability in the TLS subsystem. The exploit leverages memory corruption via crafted TLS packets to overwrite page table entries and manipulate the `core_pattern` kernel parameter for privilege escalation.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: make sure to abort the stream if headers are bogus Normally we wait for the socket to buffer up the whole record before we service it. If the socket has a tiny buffer, however, we read out the data sooner, to prevent connection stalls. Make sure that we abort the connection when we find out late that the record is actually invalid. Retrying the parsing is fine in itself but since we copy some more data each time before we parse we can overflow the allocated skb space. Constructing a scenario in which we're under pressure without enough data in the socket to parse the length upfront is quite hard. syzbot figured out a way to do this by serving us the header in small OOB sends, and then filling in the recvbuf with a large normal send. Make sure that tls_rx_msg_size() aborts strp, if we reach an invalid record there's really no way to recover.
Exploits (1)
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2025-39946, targeting a Linux kernel vulnerability in the TLS subsystem. The exploit leverages memory corruption via crafted TLS packets to overwrite page table entries and manipulate the `core_pattern` kernel parameter for privilege escalation.
References (5)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H