CVE-2024-26826

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.148, 5.16-6.1.78, 6.2-6.6.17, 6.7-6.7.5 - Data Re-injection Failure via Stale Subflow Detection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow When the MPTCP PM detects that a subflow is stale, all the packet scheduler must re-inject all the mptcp-level unacked data. To avoid acquiring unneeded locks, it first try to check if any unacked data is present at all in the RTX queue, but such check is currently broken, as it uses TCP-specific helper on an MPTCP socket. Funnily enough fuzzers and static checkers are happy, as the accessed memory still belongs to the mptcp_sock struct, and even from a functional perspective the recovery completed successfully, as the short-cut test always failed. A recent unrelated TCP change - commit d5fed5addb2b ("tcp: reorganize tcp_sock fast path variables") - exposed the issue, as the tcp field reorganization makes the mptcp code always skip the re-inection. Fix the issue dropping the bogus call: we are on a slow path, the early optimization proved once again to be evil.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 18.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.149linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.79linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.18linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.6linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 1e1d9d6f119c55c05e8ea78ed3e49046690abffd - 624902eab7abcb8731b333ec73f206d38d839cd8
Linux/Linux 1e1d9d6f119c55c05e8ea78ed3e49046690abffd - 6673d9f1c2cd984390550dbdf7d5ae07b20abbf8
Linux/Linux 1e1d9d6f119c55c05e8ea78ed3e49046690abffd - 6f95120f898b40d13fd441225ef511307853c9c2
Linux/Linux 1e1d9d6f119c55c05e8ea78ed3e49046690abffd - b609c783c535493aa3fca22c7e40a120370b1ca5
Linux/Linux 1e1d9d6f119c55c05e8ea78ed3e49046690abffd - b6c620dc43ccb4e802894e54b651cf81495e9598
... and 8 more
Published Apr 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026