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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb Patch