CVE-2024-57882

mptcp: fix TCP options overflow.

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 15, 2025 at 01:05 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix TCP options overflow. Syzbot reported the following splat: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5836 Comm: sshd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/25/2024 RIP: 0010:_compound_head include/linux/page-flags.h:242 [inline] RIP: 0010:put_page+0x23/0x260 include/linux/mm.h:1552 Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 41 57 41 56 53 49 89 fe 48 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 f8 5e 12 f8 49 8d 5e 08 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 8f c7 78 f8 48 8b 1b 48 89 de 48 83 RSP: 0000:ffffc90003916c90 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: ffff888030458000 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff898ca81d R09: 1ffff110054414ac R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10054414ad R12: 0000000000000007 R13: ffff88802a20a542 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f34f496e800(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f9d6ec9ec28 CR3: 000000004d260000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> skb_page_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:43 [inline] __skb_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:56 [inline] skb_release_data+0x483/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1119 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline] __kfree_skb+0x55/0x70 net/core/skbuff.c:1204 tcp_clean_rtx_queue net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3436 [inline] tcp_ack+0x2442/0x6bc0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4032 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x8eb/0x44e0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6805 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x77d/0xc70 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1939 tcp_v4_rcv+0x2dc0/0x37f0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2351 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x22e/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x341/0x5f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233 NF_HOOK+0x3a4/0x450 include/linux/netfilter.h:314 NF_HOOK+0x3a4/0x450 include/linux/netfilter.h:314 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5672 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x2bf/0x650 net/core/dev.c:5785 process_backlog+0x662/0x15b0 net/core/dev.c:6117 __napi_poll+0xcb/0x490 net/core/dev.c:6883 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6952 [inline] net_rx_action+0x89b/0x1240 net/core/dev.c:7074 handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702 RIP: 0033:0x7f34f4519ad5 Code: 85 d2 74 0d 0f 10 02 48 8d 54 24 20 0f 11 44 24 20 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 27 41 b8 08 00 00 00 b8 0f 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 75 48 8b 15 24 73 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 83 RSP: 002b:00007ffec5b32ce0 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000000668a0 RCX: 00007f34f4519ad5 RDX: 00007ffec5b32d00 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000564f4bc6cae0 RBP: 0000564f4bc6b5a0 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00007ffec5b32de8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000564f48ea8aa4 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000564f48ea93e8 R15: 00007ffec5b32d68 </TASK> Eric noted a probable shinfo->nr_frags corruption, which indeed occurs. The root cause is a buggy MPTCP option len computation in some circumstances: the ADD_ADDR option should be mutually exclusive with DSS since the blamed commit. Still, mptcp_established_options_add_addr() tries to set the relevant info in mptcp_out_options, if ---truncated---

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.15 ≤ v < 5.15.1775.15 ≤ v < 6.1.1245.15 ≤ v < 6.12.95.15 ≤ v < 6.135.15 ≤ v < 6.6.706.2 ≤ v < 6.6.706.7 ≤ v < 6.12.91bff1e43a30e2f7500a49d47fd26a425643a6a376.13 rc16.13 rc26.13 rc36.13 rc46.13 rc5
Vendor states this is fixed in 09ba95321a269019b5aa8e0c3bc80cf86d91fd18 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 53fe947f67c93a5334aed3a7259fcc8a204f8bb6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 88b01048f286bb522f524ad99943ba86797d6514 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cbb26f7d8451fe56ccac802c6db48d16240feebd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fb08e6b0ba284e3dcdc9378de26dcb51d90710f5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.177 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.124 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.70 (unaffected)

References (7)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09ba95321a269019b5aa8e0c3bc80cf86d91fd18
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53fe947f67c93a5334aed3a7259fcc8a204f8bb6
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb26f7d8451fe56ccac802c6db48d16240feebd
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb08e6b0ba284e3dcdc9378de26dcb51d90710f5
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/01/3
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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