CVE-2025-21927 (GCVE-0-2025-21927)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-01 15:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:09
VLAI
Title
nvme-tcp: fix potential memory corruption in nvme_tcp_recv_pdu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-tcp: fix potential memory corruption in nvme_tcp_recv_pdu() nvme_tcp_recv_pdu() doesn't check the validity of the header length. When header digests are enabled, a target might send a packet with an invalid header length (e.g. 255), causing nvme_tcp_verify_hdgst() to access memory outside the allocated area and cause memory corruptions by overwriting it with the calculated digest. Fix this by rejecting packets with an unexpected header length.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 , < 9fbc953d6b38bc824392e01850f0aeee3b348722 (git)
Affected: 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 , < 22b06c89aa6b2d1ecb8aea72edfb9d53af8d5126 (git)
Affected: 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 , < ad95bab0cd28ed77c2c0d0b6e76e03e031391064 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.19 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.7 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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