Bug 2389480 (CVE-2025-38571)

Summary: CVE-2025-38571 kernel: sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:03:08 UTC
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.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-20 02:00:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:18281 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18281

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-20 09:48:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:18318 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18318

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-27 16:19:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:19104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19104

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-11-12 11:25:10 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:21112 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21112