CVE-2025-39682
tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
05 Sep 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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 corner case
we missed is when the initial record comes from rx_list, and it's
zero length.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2902c3ebcca52ca845c03182000e8d71d3a5196fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29c0ce3c8cdb6dc5d61139c937f34cb888a6f42ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3439c15ae91a517cf3c650ea15a8987699416ad9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62708b9452f8eb77513115b17c4f8d1a22ebf843https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c09dd3773b5950e9cfb6c9b9a5f6e36d06c62677https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html