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CVE-2026-72330 (GCVE-0-2026-72330)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:42
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Title
net/tls: Consume empty data records in tls_sw_read_sock()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: Consume empty data records in tls_sw_read_sock() A peer may send a zero-length TLS application_data record; TLS 1.3 explicitly permits these as a traffic-analysis countermeasure (RFC 8446, Section 5.1). After decryption such a record has full_len == 0. tls_sw_read_sock() hands it to the read_actor, which has no payload to consume and returns zero. The loop treats a zero return as backpressure (used <= 0), requeues the skb at the head of rx_list, and stops. rx_list is serviced head-first on the next call, so the empty record is dequeued, fails the same way, and is requeued again; every later record on the connection is blocked behind it. tls_sw_recvmsg() does not stall on this: a zero-length data record copies nothing and falls through to consume_skb(). Mirror that in the read_sock() path by recognizing an empty data record before the actor runs, consuming it, and continuing.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 662fbcec32f4af6bdcf5b4006b792ebe9543d945 , < 0867b0f2513ebc1c475af9898c97f4772a68d964 (git)
Affected: 662fbcec32f4af6bdcf5b4006b792ebe9543d945 , < c6b440cf766a557b08d25f1b571b3d57d039686e (git)
Affected: 662fbcec32f4af6bdcf5b4006b792ebe9543d945 , < e8a4c9fc437b16aef38f86ce3275677e36924259 (git)
Affected: 662fbcec32f4af6bdcf5b4006b792ebe9543d945 , < ebc295ce343600c2d60c1e1e0c5d192080217457 (git)
Affected: 662fbcec32f4af6bdcf5b4006b792ebe9543d945 , < 3be28e2c9cd0230cb51fd4967df095273afd3848 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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