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High · 7.8 CVE-2023-53072 EUVD-2025-13191GHSA-r22j-fw7c-mp4g

mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets

Published May 2, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets

Christoph reported a UaF at token lookup time after having
refactored the passive socket initialization part:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810698d5b0 by task syz-executor653/3198

CPU: 1 PID: 3198 Comm: syz-executor653 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91
print_report+0x16a/0x46f
kasan_report+0xad/0x130
__token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260
mptcp_token_new_connect+0x13d/0x490
mptcp_connect+0x4ed/0x860
__inet_stream_connect+0x80e/0xd90
tcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x3ce/0x710
mptcp_sendmsg+0xff1/0x1a20
inet_sendmsg+0x11d/0x140
__sys_sendto+0x405/0x490
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

We need to properly clean-up all the paired MPTCP-level
resources and be sure to release the msk last, even when
the unaccepted subflow is destroyed by the TCP internals
via inet_child_forget().

We can re-use the existing MPTCP_WORK_CLOSE_SUBFLOW infra,
explicitly checking that for the critical scenario: the
closed subflow is the MPC one, the msk is not accepted and
eventually going through full cleanup.

With such change, __mptcp_destroy_sock() is always called
on msk sockets, even on accepted ones. We don't need anymore
to transiently drop one sk reference at msk clone time.

Please note this commit depends on the parent one:

mptcp: refactor passive socket initialization

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.7 6.1.22

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.1.25-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.1.25-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.25-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +49 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 +10 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 9 rv +64 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-553.el8_10 RHSA-2024:3138

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 8 kernel 4.18.0-553.123.1.el8_10.cloud.0.1 RXSA-2024:3138

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.23-36.46 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +12 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054

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