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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39913"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T07:44:36.244Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-11T18:44:08.579Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39913"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39913.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39913"
title: "tcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock-\u003ecork."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock-\u003ecork.\n\nsyzbot reported the splat below. [0]\n\nThe repro does the following:\n\n  1. Load a sk_msg prog that calls bpf_msg_cork_bytes(msg, cork_bytes)\n  2. Attach the prog to a SOCKMAP\n  3. Add a socket to the SOCKMAP\n  4. Activate fault injection\n  5. Send data less than cork_bytes\n\nAt 5., the data is carried over to the next sendmsg() as it is\nsmaller than the cork_bytes specified by bpf_msg_cork_bytes().\n\nThen, tcp_bpf_send_verdict() tries to allocate psock-\u003ecork to hold\nthe data, but this fails silently due to fault injection + __GFP_NOWARN.\n\nIf the allocation fails, we need to revert the sk-\u003esk_forward_alloc\nchange done by sk_msg_alloc().\n\nLet's call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict fails to allocate\npsock-\u003ecork.\n\nThe \"*copied\" also needs to be updated such that a proper error can\nbe returned to the caller, sendmsg. It fails to allocate psock-\u003ecork.\nNothing has been corked so far, so this patch simply sets \"*copied\"\nto 0.\n\n[0]:\nWARNING: net/ipv4/af_inet.c:156 at inet_sock_destruct+0x623/0x730 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:156, CPU#1: syz-executor/5983\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5983 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025\nRIP: 0010:inet_sock_destruct+0x623/0x730 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:156\nCode: 0f 0b 90 e9 62 fe ff ff e8 7a db b5 f7 90 0f 0b 90 e9 95 fe ff ff e8 6c db b5 f7 90 0f 0b 90 e9 bb fe ff ff e8 5e db b5 f7 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 90 e9 e1 fe ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 9f fc\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08b48 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: ffffffff8a09d0b2 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff888024a23c80\nRDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000fff RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: 0000000000000fff R08: ffff88807e07c627 R09: 1ffff1100fc0f8c4\nR10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100fc0f8c5 R12: ffff88807e07c380\nR13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88807e07c60c R15: 1ffff1100fc0f872\nFS:  00005555604c4500(0000) GS:ffff888125af1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00005555604df5c8 CR3: 0000000032b06000 CR4: 00000000003526f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n __sk_destruct+0x86/0x660 net/core/sock.c:2339\n rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]\n rcu_core+0xca8/0x1770 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2861\n handle_softirqs+0x286/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:579\n __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:613 [inline]\n invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:453 [inline]\n __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x1f0 kernel/softirq.c:680\n irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:696\n instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052 [inline]\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e"
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