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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Feb 27, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 7, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

mptcp: consolidate suboption status

MPTCP maintains the received sub-options status is the bitmask carrying
the received suboptions and in several bitfields carrying per suboption
additional info.

Zeroing the bitmask before parsing is not enough to ensure a consistent
status, and the MPTCP code has to additionally clear some bitfiled
depending on the actually parsed suboption.

The above schema is fragile, and syzbot managed to trigger a path where
a relevant bitfield is not cleared/initialized:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __mptcp_expand_seq net/mptcp/options.c:1030 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mptcp_expand_seq net/mptcp/protocol.h:864 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ack_update_msk net/mptcp/options.c:1060 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mptcp_incoming_options+0x2036/0x3d30 net/mptcp/options.c:1209
__mptcp_expand_seq net/mptcp/options.c:1030 [inline]
mptcp_expand_seq net/mptcp/protocol.h:864 [inline]
ack_update_msk net/mptcp/options.c:1060 [inline]
mptcp_incoming_options+0x2036/0x3d30 net/mptcp/options.c:1209
tcp_data_queue+0xb4/0x7be0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5233
tcp_rcv_established+0x1061/0x2510 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6264
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x7f3/0x11a0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1916
tcp_v4_rcv+0x51df/0x5750 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2351
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2a3/0x13d0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x336/0x500 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip_local_deliver+0x21f/0x490 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254
dst_input include/net/dst.h:460 [inline]
ip_rcv_finish+0x4a2/0x520 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:447
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip_rcv+0xcd/0x380 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:567
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5704 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb+0x319/0xa00 net/core/dev.c:5817
process_backlog+0x4ad/0xa50 net/core/dev.c:6149
__napi_poll+0xe7/0x980 net/core/dev.c:6902
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6971 [inline]
net_rx_action+0xa5a/0x19b0 net/core/dev.c:7093
handle_softirqs+0x1a0/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:561
__do_softirq+0x14/0x1a kernel/softirq.c:595
do_softirq+0x9a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:462
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x9f/0xb0 kernel/softirq.c:389
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:919 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2758/0x57d0 net/core/dev.c:4493
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline]
neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:523 [inline]
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:537 [inline]
ip_finish_output2+0x187c/0x1b70 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:236
__ip_finish_output+0x287/0x810
ip_finish_output+0x4b/0x600 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:324
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:303 [inline]
ip_output+0x15f/0x3f0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:434
dst_output include/net/dst.h:450 [inline]
ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:130 [inline]
__ip_queue_xmit+0x1f2a/0x20d0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:536
ip_queue_xmit+0x60/0x80 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:550
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x3cea/0x4900 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1468
tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1486 [inline]
tcp_write_xmit+0x3b90/0x9070 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2829
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0xc4/0x380 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3012
tcp_send_fin+0x9f6/0xf50 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3618
__tcp_close+0x140c/0x1550 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3130
__mptcp_close_ssk+0x74e/0x16f0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2496
mptcp_close_ssk+0x26b/0x2c0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2550
mptcp_pm_nl_rm_addr_or_subflow+0x635/0xd10 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:889
mptcp_pm_nl_rm_subflow_received net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:924 [inline]
mptcp_pm_flush_addrs_and_subflows net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1688 [inline]
mptcp_nl_flush_addrs_list net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1709 [inline]
mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit+0xe10/0x1630 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1750
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115 [inline]

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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 27, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 27, 2025
Last updated Mar 7, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21707

GHSA ID

GHSA-mcqw-w66r-84mp

Source code

No known source code

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