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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2025-40176

tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails Async decryption calls tls_strp_msg_hold to create a clone of the input skb to hold references to the memory it uses. If we fail to allocate that clone, proceeding with async decryption can lead to various issues (UAF on the skb, writing into userspace memory after the recv() call has returned). In this case, wait for all pending decryption requests.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to < 9f83fd0c179e0f458e824e417f9d5ad53443f685affected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to < c61d4368197d65c4809d9271f3b85325a600586aaffected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to < 39dec4ea3daf77f684308576baf483b55ca7f160affected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to < 4fc109d0ab196bd943b7451276690fb6bb48c2e0affected
  • 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 to < b8a6ff84abbcbbc445463de58704686011edc8e1affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.0affected
  • 0 to < 6.0unaffected
  • 6.1.158 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.114 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.55 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.17.5 to ≤ 6.17.*unaffected
  • 6.18 to ≤ *unaffected

References