CVE-2025-39758

RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Updated
Aug 23, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages

Ever since commit c2ff29e99a76 ("siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages()"), we have been doing this:

static int siw_tcp_sendpages(struct socket *s, struct page **page, int offset, size_t size) [...] /* Calculate the number of bytes we need to push, for this page * specifically */ size_t bytes = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE - offset, size); /* If we can't splice it, then copy it in, as normal */ if (!sendpage_ok(page[i])) msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_SPLICE_PAGES; /* Set the bvec pointing to the page, with len $bytes */ bvec_set_page(&bvec, page[i], bytes, offset); /* Set the iter to $size, aka the size of the whole sendpages (!!!) */ iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, size); try_page_again: lock_sock(sk); /* Sendmsg with $size size (!!!) */ rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, size);

This means we've been sending oversized iov_iters and tcp_sendmsg calls for a while. This has a been a benign bug because sendpage_ok() always returned true. With the recent slab allocator changes being slowly introduced into next (that disallow sendpage on large kmalloc allocations), we have recently hit out-of-bounds crashes, due to slight differences in iov_iter behavior between the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and "regular" copy paths:

(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) skb_splice_from_iter iov_iter_extract_pages iov_iter_extract_bvec_pages uses i->nr_segs to correctly stop in its tracks before OoB'ing everywhere skb_splice_from_iter gets a "short" read

(!MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) skb_copy_to_page_nocache copy=iov_iter_count [...] copy_from_iter /* this doesn't help */ if (unlikely(iter->count < len)) len = iter->count; iterate_bvec ... and we run off the bvecs

Fix this by properly setting the iov_iter's byte count, plus sending the correct byte count to tcp_sendmsg_locked.

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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a19a58ab12695abb91a4e8ecf62cc0bc5badefbe to before b47c4b7cb78b6382c6d1af0bfc0d8218e4f445ccAffected
  • c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 to before 5661fdd218c2799001b88c17acd19f4395e4488eAffected
  • c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 to before 673cf582fd788af12cdacfb62a6a593083542481Affected
  • c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 to before 42ebc16d9d2563f1a1ce0f05b643ee68d54fabf8Affected
  • c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 to before edf82bc8150570167a33a7d54627d66614cbf841Affected
  • c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 to before c18646248fed07683d4cee8a8af933fc4fe83c0dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.5Affected
  • before 6.5Not affected
  • 6.6.103 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.43 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.11 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.2 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

References

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