CVE-2025-68227

Linux Kernel 5.7.0-6.17.9 Use-After-Free in MPTCP Fallback Detection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: Fix proto fallback detection with BPF The sockmap feature allows bpf syscall from userspace, or based on bpf sockops, replacing the sk_prot of sockets during protocol stack processing with sockmap's custom read/write interfaces. ''' tcp_rcv_state_process() syn_recv_sock()/subflow_syn_recv_sock() tcp_init_transfer(BPF_SOCK_OPS_PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB) bpf_skops_established <== sockops bpf_sock_map_update(sk) <== call bpf helper tcp_bpf_update_proto() <== update sk_prot ''' When the server has MPTCP enabled but the client sends a TCP SYN without MPTCP, subflow_syn_recv_sock() performs a fallback on the subflow, replacing the subflow sk's sk_prot with the native sk_prot. ''' subflow_syn_recv_sock() subflow_ulp_fallback() subflow_drop_ctx() mptcp_subflow_ops_undo_override() ''' Then, this subflow can be normally used by sockmap, which replaces the native sk_prot with sockmap's custom sk_prot. The issue occurs when the user executes accept::mptcp_stream_accept::mptcp_fallback_tcp_ops(). Here, it uses sk->sk_prot to compare with the native sk_prot, but this is incorrect when sockmap is used, as we may incorrectly set sk->sk_socket->ops. This fix uses the more generic sk_family for the comparison instead. Additionally, this also prevents a WARNING from occurring: result from ./scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 337 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:68 mptcp_stream_accept \ (net/mptcp/protocol.c:4005) Modules linked in: ... PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> do_accept (net/socket.c:1989) __sys_accept4 (net/socket.c:2028 net/socket.c:2057) __x64_sys_accept (net/socket.c:2067) x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:41) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) RIP: 0033:0x7f87ac92b83d ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Scores

EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 18.2%

Details

Status published
Products (22)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.197linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.159linux
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 5.10.247linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.118linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.60linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7 - 037cc50589643342d69185b663ecf9d26cce91e8
Linux/Linux 0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7 - 1a0d5c74af9b6ba9ffdf1172de5a1a6df5922a00
Linux/Linux 0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7 - 344974ea1a3ca30e4920687b0091bda4438cebdb
... and 12 more
Published Dec 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026