GHSA-rvq5-xw4g-6wj7
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published October 28, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr Syzkaller found a kernel warning on the following sock_addr program: 0: r0 = 0 1: r2 = *(u32 *)(r1 +60) 2: exit which triggers: verifier bug: error during ctx access conversion (0) This is happening because offset 60 in bpf_sock_addr corresponds to an implicit padding of 4 bytes, right after msg_src_ip4. Access to this padding isn't rejected in sock_addr_is_valid_access and it thus later fails to convert the access. This patch fixes it by explicitly checking the various fields of bpf_sock_addr in sock_addr_is_valid_access. I checked the other ctx structures and is_valid_access functions and didn't find any other similar cases. Other cases of (properly handled) padding are covered in new tests in a subsequent patch.
Timeline
- Oct 28, 2025 CVE Published
- May 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40078 advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad8b4fe5617e3c85fc23267f02500c4f3bf0ff69 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de44cdc50d2dce8718cb57deddf9cf1be9a7759f url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f00858cd9bbbdf67159e28b85a8ca9e77c83622 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fabca2fc94d33cdf7ec102058983b086293395f url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76e04bbb4296fb6eac084dbfc27e02ccc744db3e url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe9d33f0470350558cb08cecb54cf2267b3a45d2 url
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d8b1a21fd5c34622b0c3893c61e4a38d8ba53ec url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdeafacb4f9ff261a96baef519e29480fd7b1019 url