linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-39828: atm: atmtcp: Prevent arbitrary write in atmtcp_recv

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Message-ID: <2025091617-CVE-2025-39828-c69f@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:00:34 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-39828: atm: atmtcp: Prevent arbitrary write in atmtcp_recv_control().

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

atm: atmtcp: Prevent arbitrary write in atmtcp_recv_control().

syzbot reported the splat below. [0]

When atmtcp_v_open() or atmtcp_v_close() is called via connect()
or close(), atmtcp_send_control() is called to send an in-kernel
special message.

The message has ATMTCP_HDR_MAGIC in atmtcp_control.hdr.length.
Also, a pointer of struct atm_vcc is set to atmtcp_control.vcc.

The notable thing is struct atmtcp_control is uAPI but has a
space for an in-kernel pointer.

  struct atmtcp_control {
  	struct atmtcp_hdr hdr;	/* must be first */
  ...
  	atm_kptr_t vcc;		/* both directions */
  ...
  } __ATM_API_ALIGN;

  typedef struct { unsigned char _[8]; } __ATM_API_ALIGN atm_kptr_t;

The special message is processed in atmtcp_recv_control() called
from atmtcp_c_send().

atmtcp_c_send() is vcc->dev->ops->send() and called from 2 paths:

  1. .ndo_start_xmit() (vcc->send() == atm_send_aal0())
  2. vcc_sendmsg()

The problem is sendmsg() does not validate the message length and
userspace can abuse atmtcp_recv_control() to overwrite any kptr
by atmtcp_control.

Let's add a new ->pre_send() hook to validate messages from sendmsg().

[0]:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00200000ab: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x0000000100000558-0x000000010000055f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5865 Comm: syz-executor331 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00215-gbab3ce404553 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:atmtcp_recv_control drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:93 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atmtcp_c_send+0x1da/0x950 drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:297
Code: 4d 8d 75 1a 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 15 06 00 00 41 0f b7 1e 4d 8d b7 60 05 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 13 06 00 00 66 41 89 1e 4d 8d 75 1c 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003f5f810 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 00000000200000ab RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88802a510000 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff888030a6068c
RBP: ffff88802699fb40 R08: ffff888030a606eb R09: 1ffff1100614c0dd
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff8718fc40 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888030a60680 R14: 000000010000055f R15: 00000000ffffffff
FS:  00007f8d7e9236c0(0000) GS:ffff888125c1c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000045ad50 CR3: 0000000075bde000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vcc_sendmsg+0xa10/0xc60 net/atm/common.c:645
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x830 net/socket.c:2614
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2668
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2700 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2705 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2703
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f8d7e96a4a9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f8d7e923198 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8d7e9f4308 RCX: 00007f8d7e96a4a9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f8d7e9f4300 R08: 65732f636f72702f R09: 65732f636f72702f
R10: 65732f636f72702f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f8d7e9c10ac
R13: 00007f8d7e9231a0 R14: 0000200000000200 R15: 0000200000000250
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-39828 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.4.298 with commit b502f16bad8f0a4cfbd023452766f21bfda39dde
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.10.242 with commit 0a6a6d4fb333f7afe22e59ffed18511a7a98efc8
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.15.191 with commit 62f368472b0aa4b5d91d9b983152855c6b6d8925
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.1.150 with commit 51872b26429077be611b0a1816e0e722278015c3
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.6.104 with commit 3c80c230d6e3e6f63d43f4c3f0bb344e3e8b119b
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.12.45 with commit 33f9e6dc66b32202b95fc861e6b3ea4b0c185b0b
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.16.5 with commit 3ab9f5ad9baefe6d3d4c37053cdfca2761001dfe
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.17-rc4 with commit ec79003c5f9d2c7f9576fc69b8dbda80305cbe3a

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-39828
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/atm/atmtcp.c
	include/linux/atmdev.h
	net/atm/common.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b502f16bad8f0a4cfbd023452766f21bfda39dde
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6a6d4fb333f7afe22e59ffed18511a7a98efc8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f368472b0aa4b5d91d9b983152855c6b6d8925
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51872b26429077be611b0a1816e0e722278015c3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c80c230d6e3e6f63d43f4c3f0bb344e3e8b119b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33f9e6dc66b32202b95fc861e6b3ea4b0c185b0b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ab9f5ad9baefe6d3d4c37053cdfca2761001dfe
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec79003c5f9d2c7f9576fc69b8dbda80305cbe3a