Bug 2528799 (CVE-2026-80904)

Summary: CVE-2026-80904 kernel: net/tls: Fail tls_sw_splice_read() after a failed async decrypt
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The `tls_sw_splice_read()` function does not properly handle errors that occur during asynchronous decryption. This oversight allows the system to continue delivering records on a connection that has failed authentication, even though other functions would correctly refuse to process such data. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security checks and cause a denial of service or process unauthenticated data.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-04 17:35:45 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/tls: Fail tls_sw_splice_read() after a failed async decrypt

When an async decrypt fails, tls_decrypt_done() records the error in
ctx->async_wait.err and calls tls_err_abort(), which stores it in
sk_err. tls_sw_recvmsg() and tls_sw_read_sock() each read
async_wait.err once they hold the reader lock and fail the call: a
record that did not authenticate breaks the connection.

tls_sw_splice_read() has no such check, and sk_err does not stand in
for one. tls_rx_rec_wait() tests sk_err only inside the loop it
skips whenever a record is already parsed, and the first reader to
reach sock_error() clears it, while async_wait.err persists. A
splice therefore keeps delivering records on a connection that
recvmsg() and read_sock() refuse to read.

Read async_wait.err in tls_sw_splice_read() as the other two readers
do.
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-09-07 07:50:44 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-80904.mbox