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mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets When the listener socket owning the relevant request is closed, it frees the unaccepted subflows and that causes later deletion of the paired MPTCP sockets. The mptcp socket's worker can run in the time interval between such delete operations. When that happens, any access to msk->first will cause an UaF access, as the subflow cleanup did not cleared such field in the mptcp socket. Address the issue explicitly traversing the listener socket accept queue at close time and performing the needed cleanup on the pending msk. Note that the locking is a bit tricky, as we need to acquire the msk socket lock, while still owning the subflow socket one.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.18.10
CVEs
CVE-2022-49669
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 02:08 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Feb 2025, 02:24 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets When the listener socket owning the relevant request is closed, it frees the unaccepted subflows and that causes later deletion of the paired MPTCP sockets. The mptcp socket's worker can run in the time interval between such delete operations. When that happens, any access to msk->first will cause an UaF access, as the subflow cleanup did not cleared such field in the mptcp socket. Address the issue explicitly traversing the listener socket accept queue at close time and performing the needed cleanup on the pending msk. Note that the locking is a bit tricky, as we need to acquire the msk socket lock, while still owning the subflow socket one.

osv:CVE-2022-49669

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.18.10

Complete source record
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