CVE-2025-39946

MEDIUM EPSS 94.6%
Published Oct 4, 20258mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Oct 4, 2025 8mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: make sure to abort the stream if headers are bogus Normally we wait for the socket to buffer up the whole record before we service it. If the socket has a tiny buffer, however, we read out the data sooner, to prevent connection stalls. Make sure that we abort the connection when we find out late that the record is actually invalid. Retrying the parsing is fine in itself but since we copy some more data each time before we parse we can overflow the allocated skb space. Constructing a scenario in which we're under pressure without enough data in the socket to parse the length upfront is quite hard. syzbot figured out a way to do this by serving us the header in small OOB sends, and then filling in the recvbuf with a large normal send. Make sure that tls_rx_msg_size() aborts strp, if we reach an invalid record there's really no way to recover.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
94.6% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Affected Products 10

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.0  –  <6.1.154
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.6.108
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.7  –  <6.12.49
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.16.9
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any
linuxlinux_kernel6.17any

References 5

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aeb54ac4cd5cf8f60131b4d9ec0b6dc9c27b20d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208640e6225cc929a05adbf79d1df558add3e231
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cefe5be73886f383639fe0850bb72d5b568a7b9
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ca2da5fb8f433ce8bbd1657c84a86272133e6b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b36462146d86b1f22e594fe4dae611dffacfb203
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aeb54ac4cd5cf8f60131b4d9ec0b6dc9c27b20d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208640e6225cc929a05adbf79d1df558add3e231
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cefe5be73886f383639fe0850bb72d5b568a7b9
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ca2da5fb8f433ce8bbd1657c84a86272133e6b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b36462146d86b1f22e594fe4dae611dffacfb203
    Patch