Vulnerability · Published Aug 19, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-38566sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts Scott Mayhew discovered a security exploit in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv() due to its assumption it can read data from the msg iterator's kvec.. kTLS implementation splits TLS non-data record payload between the control message buffer (which includes the type such as TLS aler or TLS cipher change) and the rest of the payload (say TLS alert's level/description) which goes into the msg payload buffer. This patch proposes to rework how control messages are setup and used by sock_recvmsg(). If no control message structure is setup, kTLS layer will read and process TLS data record types. As soon as it encounters a TLS control message, it would return an error. At that point, NFS can setup a kvec backed msg buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS alert. Msg iterator can advance the kvec pointer as a part of the copy process thus we need to revert the iterator before calling into the tls_alert_recv.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9kernel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel-matched5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:10kernel-abi-stablelists6.12.0-55.34.1.el10_0ALSA-2025:16354
AlmaLinux:9kernel-abi-stablelists5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-cross-headers5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-uki-virt5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel-matched5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:10kernel-doc6.12.0-55.34.1.el10_0ALSA-2025:16354
AlmaLinux:9kernel-doc5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-headers5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-kvm5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-kvm5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt-addons5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9libperf5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9perf5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9python3-perf5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9rtla5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
AlmaLinux:9rv5.14.0-570.55.1.el9_6ALSA-2025:18281
Debian:13linux6.12.43-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38566
Debian:14linux6.16.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38566
Rocky Linux:10kernel0:6.12.0-55.34.1.el10_0RLSA-2025:16354
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-100.100UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1046.49UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.146.14.0-1017.17~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1046.52UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.146.14.0-1017.17~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde6.8.0-1046.53UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.86.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1047.50UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.146.14.0-1020.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1043.48UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1030.33UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1044.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-100.100.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1046.49UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1046.49.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1020.20UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.146.14.0-1016.16UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1043.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.146.14.0-1017.17~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1047.51UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.146.14.0-36.36.1~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-100.100~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1023.24UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38566

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b – before b1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f9685e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b – before 25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c96925e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b – before 3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9c5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b – before 6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927b – before bee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edb
Linux Linux 6.4

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