Acknowledged
Created: Sep 4, 2025
Updated: Sep 8, 2025
Found In Version: 10.24.33.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 24
Component/s: Kernel
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:EOL][EOL]sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv[EOL][EOL]A cloned head skb still shares these frag skbs in fraglist with the[EOL]original head skb. It's not safe to access these frag skbs.[EOL][EOL]syzbot reported two use-of-uninitialized-memory bugs caused by this:[EOL][EOL] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in sctp_inq_pop+0x15b7/0x1920 net/sctp/inqueue.c:211[EOL] sctp_inq_pop+0x15b7/0x1920 net/sctp/inqueue.c:211[EOL] sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x1a7/0xc50 net/sctp/associola.c:998[EOL] sctp_inq_push+0x2ef/0x380 net/sctp/inqueue.c:88[EOL] sctp_backlog_rcv+0x397/0xdb0 net/sctp/input.c:331[EOL] sk_backlog_rcv+0x13b/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1122[EOL] __release_sock+0x1da/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3106[EOL] release_sock+0x6b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3660[EOL] sctp_wait_for_connect+0x487/0x820 net/sctp/socket.c:9360[EOL] sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x1ec1/0x1f00 net/sctp/socket.c:1885[EOL] sctp_sendmsg+0x32b9/0x4a80 net/sctp/socket.c:2031[EOL] inet_sendmsg+0x25a/0x280 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851[EOL] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline][EOL][EOL]and[EOL][EOL] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x34e/0xbc0 net/sctp/associola.c:987[EOL] sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x34e/0xbc0 net/sctp/associola.c:987[EOL] sctp_inq_push+0x2a3/0x350 net/sctp/inqueue.c:88[EOL] sctp_backlog_rcv+0x3c7/0xda0 net/sctp/input.c:331[EOL] sk_backlog_rcv+0x142/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1148[EOL] __release_sock+0x1d3/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3213[EOL] release_sock+0x6b/0x270 net/core/sock.c:3767[EOL] sctp_wait_for_connect+0x458/0x820 net/sctp/socket.c:9367[EOL] sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x223a/0x2260 net/sctp/socket.c:1886[EOL] sctp_sendmsg+0x3910/0x49f0 net/sctp/socket.c:2032[EOL] inet_sendmsg+0x269/0x2a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851[EOL] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline][EOL][EOL]This patch fixes it by linearizing cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv().
CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2025-38718 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38718)