CVE-2025-40078

bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 28, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr

Syzkaller found a kernel warning on the following sock_addr program:

0: r0 = 0 1: r2 = *(u32 *)(r1 +60) 2: exit

which triggers:

verifier bug: error during ctx access conversion (0)

This is happening because offset 60 in bpf_sock_addr corresponds to an implicit padding of 4 bytes, right after msg_src_ip4. Access to this padding isn't rejected in sock_addr_is_valid_access and it thus later fails to convert the access.

This patch fixes it by explicitly checking the various fields of bpf_sock_addr in sock_addr_is_valid_access.

I checked the other ctx structures and is_valid_access functions and didn't find any other similar cases. Other cases of (properly handled) padding are covered in new tests in a subsequent patch.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before de44cdc50d2dce8718cb57deddf9cf1be9a7759fAffected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before 76e04bbb4296fb6eac084dbfc27e02ccc744db3eAffected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before 6d8b1a21fd5c34622b0c3893c61e4a38d8ba53ecAffected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before 4f00858cd9bbbdf67159e28b85a8ca9e77c83622Affected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before cdeafacb4f9ff261a96baef519e29480fd7b1019Affected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before fe9d33f0470350558cb08cecb54cf2267b3a45d2Affected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before ad8b4fe5617e3c85fc23267f02500c4f3bf0ff69Affected
  • 1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e9317229 to before 6fabca2fc94d33cdf7ec102058983b086293395fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.18Affected
  • before 4.18Not affected
  • 5.4.301 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.246 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.195 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.156 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.112 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.53 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.3 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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