CVE-2025-40078

bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr

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Published: October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
4 products affected across 2 vendorsLinux KernelSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 Pn /dp MFP FirmwareSiplus S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 Pn /dp MFP Firmware

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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.

Affected

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

1cedee13d25ab118d325f95588c1a084e93172294.18
Vendor states this is fixed in 4f00858cd9bbbdf67159e28b85a8ca9e77c83622 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6d8b1a21fd5c34622b0c3893c61e4a38d8ba53ec (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6fabca2fc94d33cdf7ec102058983b086293395f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 76e04bbb4296fb6eac084dbfc27e02ccc744db3e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ad8b4fe5617e3c85fc23267f02500c4f3bf0ff69 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cdeafacb4f9ff261a96baef519e29480fd7b1019 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in de44cdc50d2dce8718cb57deddf9cf1be9a7759f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fe9d33f0470350558cb08cecb54cf2267b3a45d2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.246 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.195 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.301 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.156 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.112 (unaffected)

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