Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b, < fb7bf00b04a6b48859f52035d4e745848c2b4c79; >= e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b, < 400ee4854adef1e4983812a3decf6717ea020136; >= e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b, < 6b329393502e5857662b851a13f947209c588587 |
| Linux | Linux | 6.18 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- May 27, 2026
- Last modified
- Jun 25, 2026
- NVD status
- Analyzed