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.
Fix
Public exploits 1
- farazsth98/exploit-CVE-2025-39946 PoC on GitHub
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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aeb54ac4cd5cf8f60131b4d9ec0b6dc9c27b20d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208640e6225cc929a05adbf79d1df558add3e231 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cefe5be73886f383639fe0850bb72d5b568a7b9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ca2da5fb8f433ce8bbd1657c84a86272133e6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b36462146d86b1f22e594fe4dae611dffacfb203 Patch
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 7
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aeb54ac4cd5cf8f60131b4d9ec0b6dc9c27b20d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208640e6225cc929a05adbf79d1df558add3e231 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cefe5be73886f383639fe0850bb72d5b568a7b9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ca2da5fb8f433ce8bbd1657c84a86272133e6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b36462146d86b1f22e594fe4dae611dffacfb203 Patch