CVE-2022-49198

mptcp: Fix crash due to tcp_tsorted_anchor was initialized before release skb

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: Fix crash due to tcp_tsorted_anchor was initialized before release skb

Got crash when doing pressure test of mptcp:

=========================================================================== dst_release: dst:ffffa06ce6e5c058 refcnt:-1 kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffa06ce6e5c058 PGD 190a01067 P4D 190a01067 PUD 43fffb067 PMD 22e403063 PTE 8000000226e5c063 Oops: 0011 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 7 PID: 7823 Comm: kworker/7:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.2.1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: ? skb_release_head_state+0x68/0x100 ? skb_release_all+0xe/0x30 ? kfree_skb+0x32/0xa0 ? mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0x57e/0x750 ? __mptcp_retrans+0x21b/0x3c0 ? __switch_to_asm+0x35/0x70 ? mptcp_worker+0x25e/0x320 ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 ? kthread+0x112/0x130 ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 ===========================================================================

In __mptcp_alloc_tx_skb skb was allocated and skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor will be initialized, in under memory pressure situation sk_wmem_schedule will return false and then kfree_skb. In this case skb->_skb_refdst is not null because_skb_refdst and tcp_tsorted_anchor are stored in the same mem, and kfree_skb will try to release dst and cause crash.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 289f2f58266777f45a52cd55dea96d736e6244c9 to before af61a8f7603926c26158153d0a0755764d82657cAffected
  • f70cad1085d1e01d3ec73c1078405f906237feee to before 752add6f5ce5305e55d8bda4ac8d69be3a09f14dAffected
  • f70cad1085d1e01d3ec73c1078405f906237feee to before 4d54181eba4b077fb74033a7186898ad4000a7a5Affected
  • f70cad1085d1e01d3ec73c1078405f906237feee to before 3ef3905aa3b5b3e222ee6eb0210bfd999417a8ccAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.16Affected
  • before 5.16Not affected
  • 5.16.19 through 5.16.*Not affected
  • 5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

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