CVE-2022-49669

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.17-5.18.10 - Use-After-Free in MPTCP Socket Cleanup

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets When the listener socket owning the relevant request is closed, it frees the unaccepted subflows and that causes later deletion of the paired MPTCP sockets. The mptcp socket's worker can run in the time interval between such delete operations. When that happens, any access to msk->first will cause an UaF access, as the subflow cleanup did not cleared such field in the mptcp socket. Address the issue explicitly traversing the listener socket accept queue at close time and performing the needed cleanup on the pending msk. Note that the locking is a bit tricky, as we need to acquire the msk socket lock, while still owning the subflow socket one.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.18.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.18.10 - 5.18.*
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 86e39e04482b0aadf3ee3ed5fcf2d63816559d36 - 6aeed9045071f2252ff4e98fc13d1e304f33e5b0
Linux/Linux 86e39e04482b0aadf3ee3ed5fcf2d63816559d36 - a8a3e95c74e48c2c9b07b81fafda9122993f2e12
linux/linux_kernel 5.19 rc1 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.17 - 5.18.10
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026