CVE-2025-38552
HIGHLinux Kernel - Race Condition in MPTCP Subflow Handling
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: plug races between subflow fail and subflow creation We have races similar to the one addressed by the previous patch between subflow failing and additional subflow creation. They are just harder to trigger. The solution is similar. Use a separate flag to track the condition 'socket state prevent any additional subflow creation' protected by the fallback lock. The socket fallback makes such flag true, and also receiving or sending an MP_FAIL option. The field 'allow_infinite_fallback' is now always touched under the relevant lock, we can drop the ONCE annotation on write.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
7.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (19)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
linux/Kernel
5.15.0 - 6.1.149linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.15.8linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.101linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.40linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.15
Linux/Linux
478d770008b03ed9d74bdc8add2315b7fd124ecc - 659da22dee5ff316ba63bdaeeac7b58b5442f6c2
Linux/Linux
478d770008b03ed9d74bdc8add2315b7fd124ecc - 7c96d519ee15a130842a6513530b4d20acd2bfcd
Linux/Linux
478d770008b03ed9d74bdc8add2315b7fd124ecc - c476d627584b7589a134a8b48dd5c6639e4401c5
Linux/Linux
478d770008b03ed9d74bdc8add2315b7fd124ecc - def5b7b2643ebba696fc60ddf675dca13f073486
... and 9 more
Published
Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026