CVE-2025-40078

CVE-2025-40078

published October 28, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00245 · 14.8th percentile
Published
2025-10-28T16:15Z
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 OCT 11:48Z
    bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr
    cvelistv5