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Critical 9.8Published Sep 11, 2025

CVE-2025-39758RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages Ever since commit c2ff29e99a76 ("siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages()"), we have been doing this: static int siw_tcp_sendpages(struct socket *s, struct page **page, int offset, size_t size) [...] /* Calculate the number of bytes we need to push, for this page * specifically */ size_t bytes = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE - offset, size); /* If we can't splice it, then copy it in, as normal */ if (!sendpage_ok(page[i])) msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_SPLICE_PAGES; /* Set the bvec pointing to the page, with len $bytes */ bvec_set_page(&bvec, page[i], bytes, offset); /* Set the iter to $size, aka the size of the whole sendpages (!!!) */ iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, size); try_page_again: lock_sock(sk); /* Sendmsg with $size size (!!!) */ rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, size); This means we've been sending oversized iov_iters and tcp_sendmsg calls for a while. This has a been a benign bug because sendpage_ok() always returned true. With the recent slab allocator changes being slowly introduced into next (that disallow sendpage on large kmalloc allocations), we have recently hit out-of-bounds crashes, due to slight differences in iov_iter behavior between the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and "regular" copy paths: (MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) skb_splice_from_iter iov_iter_extract_pages iov_iter_extract_bvec_pages uses i->nr_segs to correctly stop in its tracks before OoB'ing everywhere skb_splice_from_iter gets a "short" read (!MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) skb_copy_to_page_nocache copy=iov_iter_count [...] copy_from_iter /* this doesn't help */ if (unlikely(iter->count < len)) len = iter->count; iterate_bvec ... and we run off the bvecs Fix this by properly setting the iov_iter's byte count, plus sending the correct byte count to tcp_sendmsg_locked.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Aug 23, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from a19a58ab12695abb91a4e8ecf62cc0bc5badefbe before b47c4b7cb78b6382c6d1af0bfc0d8218e4f445cc; from c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 before 5661fdd218c2799001b88c17acd19f4395e4488e; from c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 before 673cf582fd788af12cdacfb62a6a593083542481; from c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 before 42ebc16d9d2563f1a1ce0f05b643ee68d54fabf8; from c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 before edf82bc8150570167a33a7d54627d66614cbf841; from c2ff29e99a764769eb2ce3a1a5585013633ee9a6 before c18646248fed07683d4cee8a8af933fc4fe83c0d
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 6.5 before 6.6.103; from 6.7 before 6.12.43; from 6.13 before 6.15.11; from 6.16 before 6.16.2
NVD

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