CVE-2025-38571 Affecting kernel-uek-debug-core package, versions <0:6.12.0-103.40.4.3.el10uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE10-KERNELUEKDEBUGCORE-13018834
  • published24 Sept 2025
  • disclosed19 Aug 2025

Introduced: 19 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38571  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:10 kernel-uek-debug-core to version 0:6.12.0-103.40.4.3.el10uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20608.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug-core package and not the kernel-uek-debug-core package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts

A security exploit was discovered in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv due to its assumption that there is valid data in the msghdr's iterator's kvec.

Instead, this patch proposes the 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 control buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS alert. Scott found that a 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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