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mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() MPTCP-level OoOs are physiological when multiple subflows are active concurrently and will not cause retransmissions nor are caused by drops. Accounting for them in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() causes the rcvbuf slowly drifting towards tcp_rmem[2]. Remove such accounting. Note that subflows will still account for TCP-level OoO when the MPTCP-level rcvbuf is propagated. This also closes a subtle and very unlikely race condition with rcvspace init; active sockets with user-space holding the msk-level socket lock, could complete such initialization in the receive callback, after that the first OoO data reaches the rcvbuf and potentially triggering a divide by zero Oops.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.18.14, 6.19.4
CVEs
CVE-2026-45889
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 10:39 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 May 2026, 12:17 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() MPTCP-level OoOs are physiological when multiple subflows are active concurrently and will not cause retransmissions nor are caused by drops. Accounting for them in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() causes the rcvbuf slowly drifting towards tcp_rmem[2]. Remove such accounting. Note that subflows will still account for TCP-level OoO when the MPTCP-level rcvbuf is propagated. This also closes a subtle and very unlikely race condition with rcvspace init; active sockets with user-space holding the msk-level socket lock, could complete such initialization in the receive callback, after that the first OoO data reaches the rcvbuf and potentially triggering a divide by zero Oops.

osv:CVE-2026-45889

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.18.14, 6.19.4

Complete source record
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