CVE-2026-80585

mptcp: fastopen: only mark MPTFO subflows with SYN data

State
Published
Severity
9.4 Critical
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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

mptcp: fastopen: only mark MPTFO subflows with SYN data

Passive TCP Fast Open accepts a valid-cookie SYN even when it carries no data. In that case the child socket's receive queue is intentionally left empty.

mptcp_fastopen_subflow_synack_set_params() set is_mptfo before checking for queued SYN data. That made data-less TFO SYNs hit a WARN and, if the warning was non-fatal, left stale MPTFO state behind. The stale flag could later trigger a state-confusion bug in check_fully_established().

Only mark the subflow as MPTFO after confirming that an SKB was queued. Return quietly when the receive queue is empty.

Note that mptcp_subflow_context's is_mptfo field is now not just about subflows where the TFO was present, but about MPTFO subflow that consumed SYN data. Only having a valid cookie but not carrying data is not really "doing TFO".

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.4 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 36b122baf6a8bd46b4a591f12f4ed17b22257408 to before f75f174edc865738522e514d042cf5627f084859Affected
  • 36b122baf6a8bd46b4a591f12f4ed17b22257408 to before fca7e444c04689fe4cc6b56f2725f804a4bb1ef9Affected
  • 36b122baf6a8bd46b4a591f12f4ed17b22257408 to before 75e564b2ced1cc3d9a8904c7d2d2bb448fffb8b5Affected
  • 36b122baf6a8bd46b4a591f12f4ed17b22257408 to before 72b4a0c51a4b550d40301d60a366b429b8c8e78dAffected
  • 36b122baf6a8bd46b4a591f12f4ed17b22257408 to before e00b63056fb4f261455b3e5df5268a1f8ce47a87Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.2Affected
  • before 6.2Not affected
  • 6.6.153 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.105 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.46 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.10 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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