CVE-2025-38616

tls: handle data disappearing from under the TLS ULP

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 22, 2025 at 01:01 PM UTC
Updated: August 27, 2026 at 01:16 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: handle data disappearing from under the TLS ULP TLS expects that it owns the receive queue of the TCP socket. This cannot be guaranteed in case the reader of the TCP socket entered before the TLS ULP was installed, or uses some non-standard read API (eg. zerocopy ones). Replace the WARN_ON() and a buggy early exit (which leaves anchor pointing to a freed skb) with real error handling. Wipe the parsing state and tell the reader to retry. We already reload the anchor every time we (re)acquire the socket lock, so the only condition we need to avoid is an out of bounds read (not having enough bytes in the socket for previously parsed record len). If some data was read from under TLS but there's enough in the queue we'll reload and decrypt what is most likely not a valid TLS record. Leading to some undefined behavior from TLS perspective (corrupting a stream? missing an alert? missing an attack?) but no kernel crash should take place.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.0 ≤ v < 6.1.1856.0 ≤ v < 6.12.436.0 ≤ v < 6.15.116.0 ≤ v < 6.16.26.0 ≤ v < 6.176.0 ≤ v < 6.6.1036.13 ≤ v < 6.15.116.16 ≤ v < 6.16.26.7 ≤ v < 6.12.436.17 rc184c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417
Vendor states this is fixed in 2fb97ed9e2672b4f6e24ce206ac1a875ce4bcb38 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6db015fc4b5d5f63a64a193f65d98da3a7fc811d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in db3658a12d5ec4db7185ae7476151a50521b7207 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in eb0336f213fe88bbdb7d2b19c9c9ec19245a3155 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ef50eaab631f9bf519ddbdfa42ccb0528adc1fc8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f1fe99919f629f980d0b8a7ff16950bffe06a859 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.185 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.43 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.103 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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