CVE-2026-45889

MEDIUM

mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() MPTCP-level OoOs are physiological when multiple subflows are active concurrently and will not cause retransmissions nor are caused by drops. Accounting for them in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() causes the rcvbuf slowly drifting towards tcp_rmem[2]. Remove such accounting. Note that subflows will still account for TCP-level OoO when the MPTCP-level rcvbuf is propagated. This also closes a subtle and very unlikely race condition with rcvspace init; active sockets with user-space holding the msk-level socket lock, could complete such initialization in the receive callback, after that the first OoO data reaches the rcvbuf and potentially triggering a divide by zero Oops.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-369
Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 6.18.0 - 6.18.14linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.4linux
Linux/Linux < 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18.14 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.4 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b - 400ee4854adef1e4983812a3decf6717ea020136
Linux/Linux e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b - 6b329393502e5857662b851a13f947209c588587
Linux/Linux e118cdc34dd109562b64f6a397f68cd33b041d5b - fb7bf00b04a6b48859f52035d4e745848c2b4c79
... and 1 more
Published May 27, 2026
Tracked Since May 27, 2026