Add kernelCTF CVE-2025-39946 mitigation #295
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| record and fails to check whether the available fragments are already | ||
| exhausted ([1]). It then continues to copy the incoming data ([2]). | ||
| Finally, parsing the TLS header in `tls_rx_msg_size` is made to fail | ||
| returning an invalid size. This causes the copy loop to abort, however |
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The fix commit removes the call to tls_strp_abort_strp from the error handling. To me it seems like the code that aborted the read was there before the fix commit but it got removed with the fix, which doesn't match what you say here. Can you explain why that is?
| are accessible to us because of the bug described. | ||
| In order to exploit this, we will first groom the heap so that the next fragment | ||
| has some controlled value. We then try to re-use this fragment page so that we | ||
| can trigger a page write corrupting kernel data. |
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Can you explain how this works? vulnerability.md says that you have an OOB read of uninitialized data. How do we go from that to an out-of-bounds write?
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