CVE-2025-38591

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 38
Analyzed
Published: 19 Aug 2025, 17:03
Last modified:11 May 2026, 21:31

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.01% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Aug 2025, 17:03
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 21:31
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: r0 = *(u8 *)(r1 + 169); exit; With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in __sk_buff. This access is detected as a narrower read in bpf_skb_is_valid_access because it doesn't match offsetof(struct __sk_buff, sk). It is therefore allowed and later proceeds to bpf_convert_ctx_access. Note that for the "is_narrower_load" case in the convert_ctx_accesses(), the insn->off is aligned, so the cnt may not be 0 because it matches the offsetof(struct __sk_buff, sk) in the bpf_convert_ctx_access. However, the target_size stays 0 and the verifier errors with a kernel warning: verifier bug: error during ctx access conversion(1) This patch fixes that to return a proper "invalid bpf_context access off=X size=Y" error on the load instruction. The same issue affects multiple other fields in context structures that allow narrow access. Some other non-affected fields (for sk_msg, sk_lookup, and sockopt) were also changed to use bpf_ctx_range_ptr for consistency. Note this syzkaller crash was reported in the "Closes" link below, which used to be about a different bug, fixed in commit fce7bd8e385a ("bpf/verifier: Handle BPF_LOAD_ACQ instructions in insn_def_regno()"). Because syzbot somehow confused the two bugs, the new crash and repro didn't get reported to the mailing list.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.01%• Percentile: 3%

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux

    ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < 7847c4140e06f6e87229faae22cc38525334c156 | ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < feae34c992eb7191862fb1594c704fbbf650fef8 | ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < 33660d44e789edb4f303210c813fc56d56377a90 | ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < 058a0da4f6d916a79b693384111bb80a90d73763 | ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < 202900ceeef67458c964c2af6e1427c8e533ea7c | ≥ f96da09473b52c09125cc9bf7d7d4576ae8229e0, < e09299225d5ba3916c91ef70565f7d2187e4cca0 | 4.13

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 4.13, < 6.16.1

References (6)