{ "schema_version": "1.4.0", "id": "GHSA-59wj-ff55-qrvj", "modified": "2025-09-11T18:35:52Z", "published": "2025-09-11T18:35:51Z", "aliases": [ "CVE-2025-39758" ], "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages\n\nEver since commit c2ff29e99a76 (\"siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages()\"),\nwe have been doing this:\n\nstatic int siw_tcp_sendpages(struct socket *s, struct page **page, int offset,\n size_t size)\n[...]\n /* Calculate the number of bytes we need to push, for this page\n * specifically */\n size_t bytes = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE - offset, size);\n /* If we can't splice it, then copy it in, as normal */\n if (!sendpage_ok(page[i]))\n msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;\n /* Set the bvec pointing to the page, with len $bytes */\n bvec_set_page(&bvec, page[i], bytes, offset);\n /* Set the iter to $size, aka the size of the whole sendpages (!!!) */\n iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, size);\ntry_page_again:\n lock_sock(sk);\n /* Sendmsg with $size size (!!!) */\n rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, size);\n\nThis means we've been sending oversized iov_iters and tcp_sendmsg calls\nfor a while. This has a been a benign bug because sendpage_ok() always\nreturned true. With the recent slab allocator changes being slowly\nintroduced into next (that disallow sendpage on large kmalloc\nallocations), we have recently hit out-of-bounds crashes, due to slight\ndifferences in iov_iter behavior between the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and\n\"regular\" copy paths:\n\n(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)\nskb_splice_from_iter\n iov_iter_extract_pages\n iov_iter_extract_bvec_pages\n uses i->nr_segs to correctly stop in its tracks before OoB'ing everywhere\n skb_splice_from_iter gets a \"short\" read\n\n(!MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)\nskb_copy_to_page_nocache copy=iov_iter_count\n [...]\n copy_from_iter\n /* this doesn't help */\n if (unlikely(iter->count < len))\n len = iter->count;\n iterate_bvec\n ... and we run off the bvecs\n\nFix this by properly setting the iov_iter's byte count, plus sending the\ncorrect byte count to tcp_sendmsg_locked.", "severity": [], "affected": [], "references": [ { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39758" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42ebc16d9d2563f1a1ce0f05b643ee68d54fabf8" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5661fdd218c2799001b88c17acd19f4395e4488e" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673cf582fd788af12cdacfb62a6a593083542481" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c18646248fed07683d4cee8a8af933fc4fe83c0d" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edf82bc8150570167a33a7d54627d66614cbf841" } ], "database_specific": { "cwe_ids": [], "severity": null, "github_reviewed": false, "github_reviewed_at": null, "nvd_published_at": "2025-09-11T17:15:39Z" } }