CVE-2025-39682

Technical Description

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

tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list

Each recvmsg() call must process either

- only contiguous DATA records (any number of them)

- one non-DATA record

If the next record has different type than what has already been

processed we break out of the main processing loop. If the record

has already been decrypted (which may be the case for TLS 1.3 where

we don't know type until decryption) we queue the pending record

to the rx_list. Next recvmsg() will pick it up from there.

Queuing the skb to rx_list after zero-copy decrypt is not possible,

since in that case we decrypted directly to the user space buffer,

and we don't have an skb to queue (darg.skb points to the ciphertext

skb for access to metadata like length).

Only data records are allowed zero-copy, and we break the processing

loop after each non-data record. So we should never zero-copy and

then find out that the record type has changed. The

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

References