CVE-2026-74611 PUBLISHED

tls: rx: restore msg_iter before TLS 1.3 optimistic retry

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

tls: rx: restore msg_iter before TLS 1.3 optimistic retry

tls_decrypt_sg() advances msg->msg_iter when it maps user pages for the optimistic TLS 1.3 zero-copy path. If the decrypted record turns out not to be unpadded application data, tls_decrypt_sw() retries into a kernel skb, but leaves the iterator advanced.

The subsequent copy from the skb then writes decrypted bytes again at a later point in the caller iovecs while recvmsg() reports only the post-retry length. A TLS peer can trigger this after the receiver enables TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD.

Revert the iterator by the number of bytes consumed by the optimistic mapping before retrying without zero-copy.

Add a selftest which sends a TLS 1.3 control record with TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD enabled and verifies that recvmsg() does not overwrite later iovecs beyond the returned length.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ce61327ce989b63c0bd1cc7afee00e218ee696ac to 68787940274ec89f41dc91b1a68ee1a16a90735f (excl.)
  • affected from ce61327ce989b63c0bd1cc7afee00e218ee696ac to 3c837266a734e2a22b24d2d567404a501d405835 (excl.)
  • affected from ce61327ce989b63c0bd1cc7afee00e218ee696ac to 1c8629651cb54f7b51db8fc0b1a9944e4a4b0f5e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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