CVE-2025-39682

tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Sep 5, 2025
Updated
Oct 7, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list

Each recvmsg() call must process either - only contiguous DATA records (any number of them) - one non-DATA record

If the next record has different type than what has already been processed we break out of the main processing loop. If the record has already been decrypted (which may be the case for TLS 1.3 where we don't know type until decryption) we queue the pending record to the rx_list. Next recvmsg() will pick it up from there.

Queuing the skb to rx_list after zero-copy decrypt is not possible, since in that case we decrypted directly to the user space buffer, and we don't have an skb to queue (darg.skb points to the ciphertext skb for access to metadata like length).

Only data records are allowed zero-copy, and we break the processing loop after each non-data record. So we should never zero-copy and then find out that the record type has changed. The corner case we missed is when the initial record comes from rx_list, and it's zero length.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to before 2902c3ebcca52ca845c03182000e8d71d3a5196fAffected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to before c09dd3773b5950e9cfb6c9b9a5f6e36d06c62677Affected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to before 3439c15ae91a517cf3c650ea15a8987699416ad9Affected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to before 29c0ce3c8cdb6dc5d61139c937f34cb888a6f42eAffected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to before 62708b9452f8eb77513115b17c4f8d1a22ebf843Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.149 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.103 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.44 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.4 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

References

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