CVE-2022-49669

mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00249 · 15.3th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:24Z
    mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets
    cvelistv5