CVE-2026-45889

mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
May 27, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b to before fb7bf00b04a6b48859f52035d4e745848c2b4c79Affected
  • e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b to before 400ee4854adef1e4983812a3decf6717ea020136Affected
  • e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b to before 6b329393502e5857662b851a13f947209c588587Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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