Bug 2389487 (CVE-2025-38566)

Summary: CVE-2025-38566 kernel: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:03:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts

Scott Mayhew discovered a security exploit in NFS over TLS in
tls_alert_recv() due to its assumption it can read data from
the msg iterator's kvec..

kTLS implementation splits TLS non-data record payload between
the control message buffer (which includes the type such as TLS
aler or TLS cipher change) and the rest of the payload (say TLS
alert's level/description) which goes into the msg payload buffer.

This patch proposes to 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 msg buffer and read in the control message such as a
TLS alert. 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 2025-09-22 10:33:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:16354 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16354

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-14 08:27:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:17958 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17958

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-20 02:00:37 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 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