CVE-2025-38089

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sunrpc: handle SVC_GARBAGE during svc auth processing as auth error

tianshuo han reported a remotely-triggerable crash if the client sends a

kernel RPC server a specially crafted packet. If decoding the RPC reply

fails in such a way that SVC_GARBAGE is returned without setting the

rq_accept_statp pointer, then that pointer can be dereferenced and a

value stored there.

If it's the first time the thread has processed an RPC, then that

pointer will be set to NULL and the kernel will crash. In other cases,

it could create a memory scribble.

The server sunrpc code treats a SVC_GARBAGE return from svc_authenticate

or pg_authenticate as if it should send a GARBAGE_ARGS reply. RFC 5531

says that if authentication fails that the RPC should be rejected

instead with a status of AUTH_ERR.

Handle a SVC_GARBAGE return as an AUTH_ERROR, with a reason of

AUTH_BADCRED instead of returning GARBAGE_ARGS in that case. This

sidesteps

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

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