CVE-2025-38571

sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Aug 19, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

Read the record on cve.org

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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f to before a55b3d15331859d9fdd261cfa6d34ca2aeb0fb95Affected
  • dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f to before c36b2fbd60e8f9c6f975522130998608880c93beAffected
  • dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f to before 3ee397eaaca4fa04db21bb98c8f1d0c6cc525368Affected
  • dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f to before 3feada5baf4dc96e151ff2ca54630e1d274e5458Affected
  • dea034b963c8901bdcc3d3880c04f0d75c95112f to before cc5d59081fa26506d02de2127ab822f40d88bc5aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.5Affected
  • before 6.5Not affected
  • 6.6.102 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.42 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.10 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.1 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.