CVE-2025-39913

Technical Description

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

tcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock->cork.

syzbot reported the splat below. [0]

The repro does the following:

1. Load a sk_msg prog that calls bpf_msg_cork_bytes(msg, cork_bytes)

2. Attach the prog to a SOCKMAP

3. Add a socket to the SOCKMAP

4. Activate fault injection

5. Send data less than cork_bytes

At 5., the data is carried over to the next sendmsg() as it is

smaller than the cork_bytes specified by bpf_msg_cork_bytes().

Then, tcp_bpf_send_verdict() tries to allocate psock->cork to hold

the data, but this fails silently due to fault injection + __GFP_NOWARN.

If the allocation fails, we need to revert the sk->sk_forward_alloc

change done by sk_msg_alloc().

Let's call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict fails to allocate

psock->cork.

The "*copied" also needs to be updated such that a proper error can

be returned to the caller, sendmsg. It fails to al

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