CVE-2025-38566

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n 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.

Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

26 Nov 2025, 18:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
CWE CWE-754
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Linux linux Kernel
Linux
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb - Patch

20 Aug 2025, 14:40

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-08-19 17:15

Updated : 2025-11-26 18:15


NVD link : CVE-2025-38566

Mitre link : CVE-2025-38566

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-38566


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Products Affected
CWE
CWE-754

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