CVE-2026-80904 PUBLISHED

net/tls: Fail tls_sw_splice_read() after a failed async decrypt

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

net/tls: Fail tls_sw_splice_read() after a failed async decrypt

When an async decrypt fails, tls_decrypt_done() records the error in ctx->async_wait.err and calls tls_err_abort(), which stores it in sk_err. tls_sw_recvmsg() and tls_sw_read_sock() each read async_wait.err once they hold the reader lock and fail the call: a record that did not authenticate breaks the connection.

tls_sw_splice_read() has no such check, and sk_err does not stand in for one. tls_rx_rec_wait() tests sk_err only inside the loop it skips whenever a record is already parsed, and the first reader to reach sock_error() clears it, while async_wait.err persists. A splice therefore keeps delivering records on a connection that recvmsg() and read_sock() refuse to read.

Read async_wait.err in tls_sw_splice_read() as the other two readers do.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to a808aadff634c7a408b2ab84d5919e9a741fdb5b (excl.)
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to 06c2a53604fa1dc4820063828d7dadb3675b7af8 (excl.)
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to 18ae1e95f20867106a28820c208a9cec99dda861 (excl.)
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to 82d9269f01ebfd835b6256aa17016a974cbbc647 (excl.)
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to 4b177911eb9f799e9841c2f87c75b08cb112757a (excl.)
  • affected from f314bfee81b1bf8e01168177b2f65f24eb8da63a to 976df67f463db1fddaf2a32fb04f57ad2891a23d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.184 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.153 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.105 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.46 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.10 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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