Bug 2406762 (CVE-2025-40078) - CVE-2025-40078 kernel: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr
Summary: CVE-2025-40078 kernel: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40078
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-28 12:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-28 18:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-28 12:04:07 UTC
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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