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FKIE_CVE-2025-23145

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-01 13:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:22

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix NULL pointer in can_accept_new_subflow When testing valkey benchmark tool with MPTCP, the kernel panics in 'mptcp_can_accept_new_subflow' because subflow_req->msk is NULL. Call trace: mptcp_can_accept_new_subflow (./net/mptcp/subflow.c:63 (discriminator 4)) (P) subflow_syn_recv_sock (./net/mptcp/subflow.c:854) tcp_check_req (./net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:863) tcp_v4_rcv (./net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2268) ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (./net/ipv4/ip_input.c:207) ip_local_deliver_finish (./net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234) ip_local_deliver (./net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254) ip_rcv_finish (./net/ipv4/ip_input.c:449) ... According to the debug log, the same req received two SYN-ACK in a very short time, very likely because the client retransmits the syn ack due to multiple reasons. Even if the packets are transmitted with a relevant time interval, they can be processed by the server on different CPUs concurrently). The 'subflow_req->msk' ownership is transferred to the subflow the first, and there will be a risk of a null pointer dereference here. This patch fixes this issue by moving the 'subflow_req->msk' under the `own_req == true` conditional. Note that the !msk check in subflow_hmac_valid() can be dropped, because the same check already exists under the own_req mpj branch where the code has been moved to.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/443041deb5ef6a1289a99ed95015ec7442f141dc	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2649b9717678aeb097893cc49f59311a1ecab0	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f9ae060ed64aef8f174c5f1ea513825b1be9af1	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/855bf0aacd51fced11ea9aa0d5101ee0febaeadb	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf7fef1bb2ffea7792bcbf71ca00216cecc725d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3088bd2a6790c8efff139d86d7a9d0b1305977b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc81e41a307df523072186b241fa8244fecd7803	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efd58a8dd9e7a709a90ee486a4247c923d27296f	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html	Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html	Mailing List

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-23145 (GCVE-0-2025-23145)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 12:55 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:57

Title

mptcp: fix NULL pointer in can_accept_new_subflow

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf7fef1bb2ffea77…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3088bd2a6790c8ef…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/855bf0aacd51fced1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f9ae060ed64aef8f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc81e41a307df5230…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efd58a8dd9e7a709a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2649b9717678aeb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/443041deb5ef6a128…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < 8cf7fef1bb2ffea7792bcbf71ca00216cecc725d (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < b3088bd2a6790c8efff139d86d7a9d0b1305977b (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < 855bf0aacd51fced11ea9aa0d5101ee0febaeadb (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < 7f9ae060ed64aef8f174c5f1ea513825b1be9af1 (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < dc81e41a307df523072186b241fa8244fecd7803 (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < efd58a8dd9e7a709a90ee486a4247c923d27296f (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < 4b2649b9717678aeb097893cc49f59311a1ecab0 (git) Affected: 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 , < 443041deb5ef6a1289a99ed95015ec7442f141dc (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.135 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.88 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.24 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13.12 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14.3 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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