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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tls: fix kernel panic when alloc_page failed\n\nWe cannot set frag_list to NULL pointer when alloc_page failed.\nIt will be used in tls_strp_check_queue_ok when the next time\ntls_strp_read_sock is called.\n\nThis is because we don't reset full_len in tls_strp_flush_anchor_copy()\nso the recv path will try to continue handling the partial record\non the next call but we dettached the rcvq from the frag list.\nAlternative fix would be to reset full_len.\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference\nat virtual address 0000000000000028\n Call trace:\n tls_strp_check_rcv+0x128/0x27c\n tls_strp_data_ready+0x34/0x44\n tls_data_ready+0x3c/0x1f0\n tcp_data_ready+0x9c/0xe4\n tcp_data_queue+0xf6c/0x12d0\n tcp_rcv_established+0x52c/0x798"
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"value": "AV:N - The entire code path is driven by data received from the remote TLS peer — `tcp_rcv_established → tcp_data_queue → tcp_data_ready → tls_data_ready → tls_strp_data_ready → tls_strp_check_rcv → tls_strp_read_sock` — and the remote peer controls the TLS record framing and TCP segmentation that force the buggy `tls_strp_read_copy()` path. No local access is needed, matching the established kTLS scoring convention (CVE-2025-38471, CVE-2025-40176, CVE-2025-39946).\nAC:L - The attacker controls both required conditions: sending a TLS record header declaring a large payload followed by only a partial payload forces `inq < full_len` into `tls_strp_read_copy()`, and stalling the reader drives `tcp_rmem_pressure()` true so the allocation loop is entered — where `sk->sk_allocation` has been forced to `GFP_ATOMIC` by `tls_data_ready()`, making a 5-page order-0 failure readily inducible by spraying connections to exhaust atomic reserves. Repo precedent for allocation-failure NULL derefs (CVE-2025-40053) uses AC:L.\nPR:N - The strparser runs on every record received on a kTLS-RX socket, so any remote client that completes a standard server-authenticated TLS handshake with a kTLS-enabled server (nginx, HTTP/2, message brokers) can drive it without presenting any credentials to the target. No local account or capability is involved.\nUI:N - The crash is triggered entirely by the attacker's own packet stream arriving in the TCP receive softirq; no action by a local user or administrator is required.\nS:U - The NULL dereference occurs in kernel context and its effect is confined to the kernel of the affected host, crossing no VM, hypervisor, IOMMU, or other security-authority boundary.\nC:N - The fault is a dereference of a NULL `frag_list` at the fixed offset 0x28 (`TCP_SKB_CB(first)->seq`), a non-mappable low address under mmap_min_addr; no attacker-controlled data is read and nothing is copied back to userspace or the peer.\nI:N - No memory is written or corrupted — the stale anchor retains `len`/`data_len` with zero frags, which only makes `skb_copy_bits()` return `-EFAULT`, and the detached pointer is NULL rather than dangling, so there is no write or control-flow primitive.\nA:H - The NULL dereference occurs in softirq context inside `tcp_rcv_established()`, producing a fatal exception in interrupt that panics the machine (and guarantees reboot where `panic_on_oops` is set, as on Android and embedded builds), as reflected in the commit title \"fix kernel panic when alloc_page failed.\""
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