CVE-2026-74610

tls: don't leave a full plaintext sk_msg ring unpushed

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 22, 2026 at 03:31 PM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: don't leave a full plaintext sk_msg ring unpushed When the copy path in tls_sw_sendmsg_locked() adds the fragment that fills the plaintext sk_msg ring, it does not set full_record, so the record is left full and unpushed. A later splice() then adds to an already full ring: sk_msg_page_add() has no fullness check of its own, so sg.end wraps onto sg.start and the ring appears empty. Fragments added after that overwrite live entries, and sg.size no longer matches what is reachable between sg.start and sg.end, so pushing the record runs the scatterwalk off the end of the scatterlist. An unprivileged user can trigger this on a loopback TCP socket with the "tls" ULP attached: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:memcpy_from_scatterwalk+0x32/0xc0 Call Trace: skcipher_walk_next+0x1d1/0x2c0 gcm_encrypt_aesni_avx+0x1e9/0x220 bpf_exec_tx_verdict+0x3bb/0x860 tls_sw_sendmsg+0xa1a/0xca0 __sys_sendto+0x1da/0x1f0 Set full_record in the copy path when the ring becomes full, and push a record that is already full on entry to the sendmsg loop.

Affected

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

6.5fe1e81d4f73b6cbaed4fcc476960d26770642842
Vendor states this is fixed in 3c5f8f2aa57c647b83add4896aab64aac5fdedad (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3fc5044796dd87b8d68be4207046f5ce2748174c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7bca91d63341274e857f4aeaad54d229405e93dc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in aa8b14647721b5a4958712b35cf43e3125d47753 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f634289a0b557a197c5f37284b623cefedfe73d5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.104 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.45 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.152 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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