{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2023-53490", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-10-01T11:39:39.403Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-01T11:45:42.182Z", "dateUpdated": "2025-10-01T11:45:42.182Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2025-10-01T11:45:42.182Z"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix disconnect vs accept race\n\nDespite commit 0ad529d9fd2b (\"mptcp: fix possible divide by zero in\nrecvmsg()\"), the mptcp protocol is still prone to a race between\ndisconnect() (or shutdown) and accept.\n\nThe root cause is that the mentioned commit checks the msk-level\nflag, but mptcp_stream_accept() does acquire the msk-level lock,\nas it can rely directly on the first subflow lock.\n\nAs reported by Christoph than can lead to a race where an msk\nsocket is accepted after that mptcp_subflow_queue_clean() releases\nthe listener socket lock and just before it takes destructive\nactions leading to the following splat:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012\nPGD 5a4ca067 P4D 5a4ca067 PUD 37d4c067 PMD 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\nCPU: 2 PID: 10955 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-gdc7b257ee5dd #37\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:mptcp_stream_accept+0x1ee/0x2f0 include/net/inet_sock.h:330\nCode: 0a 09 00 48 8b 1b 4c 39 e3 74 07 e8 bc 7c 7f fe eb a1 e8 b5 7c 7f fe 4c 8b 6c 24 08 eb 05 e8 a9 7c 7f fe 49 8b 85 d8 09 00 00 <0f> b6 40 12 88 44 24 07 0f b6 6c 24 07 bf 07 00 00 00 89 ee e8 89\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000d07dc0 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888037e8d020 RCX: ffff88803b093300\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff833822c5 RDI: ffffffff8333896a\nRBP: 0000607f82031520 R08: ffff88803b093300 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000003e83 R12: ffff888037e8d020\nR13: ffff888037e8c680 R14: ffff888009af7900 R15: ffff888009af6880\nFS: 00007fc26d708640(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000012 CR3: 0000000066bc5001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n do_accept+0x1ae/0x260 net/socket.c:1872\n __sys_accept4+0x9b/0x110 net/socket.c:1913\n __do_sys_accept4 net/socket.c:1954 [inline]\n __se_sys_accept4 net/socket.c:1951 [inline]\n __x64_sys_accept4+0x20/0x30 net/socket.c:1951\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x47/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nAddress the issue by temporary removing the pending request socket\nfrom the accept queue, so that racing accept() can't touch them.\n\nAfter depleting the msk - the ssk still exists, as plain TCP sockets,\nre-insert them into the accept queue, so that later inet_csk_listen_stop()\nwill complete the tcp socket disposal."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["net/mptcp/protocol.h", "net/mptcp/subflow.c"], "versions": [{"version": "b45d8f5375eda3ddc89fe529b58bb643917bd87b", "lessThan": "ded9f5551ce5cafa3c41c794428c27a0d0a00542", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "2a6a870e44dd88f1a6a2893c65ef756a9edfb4c7", "lessThan": "b2b4c84eb7149f34c0f25f17042d095ba5357d68", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "2a6a870e44dd88f1a6a2893c65ef756a9edfb4c7", "lessThan": "511b90e39250135a7f900f1c3afbce25543018a2", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "64b66601308dae6105fbde964a339462a29c2a73", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["net/mptcp/protocol.h", "net/mptcp/subflow.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.3", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.3", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.1.46", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.4.11", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1.27", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.46"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.4.11"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.5"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.2.13"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ded9f5551ce5cafa3c41c794428c27a0d0a00542"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2b4c84eb7149f34c0f25f17042d095ba5357d68"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511b90e39250135a7f900f1c3afbce25543018a2"}], "title": "mptcp: fix disconnect vs accept race", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix disconnect vs accept race\n\nDespite commit 0ad529d9fd2b (\"mptcp: fix possible divide by zero in\nrecvmsg()\"), the mptcp protocol is still prone to a race between\ndisconnect() (or shutdown) and accept.\n\nThe root cause is that the mentioned commit checks the msk-level\nflag, but mptcp_stream_accept() does acquire the msk-level lock,\nas it can rely directly on the first subflow lock.\n\nAs reported by Christoph than can lead to a race where an msk\nsocket is accepted after that mptcp_subflow_queue_clean() releases\nthe listener socket lock and just before it takes destructive\nactions leading to the following splat:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012\nPGD 5a4ca067 P4D 5a4ca067 PUD 37d4c067 PMD 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\nCPU: 2 PID: 10955 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-gdc7b257ee5dd #37\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:mptcp_stream_accept+0x1ee/0x2f0 include/net/inet_sock.h:330\nCode: 0a 09 00 48 8b 1b 4c 39 e3 74 07 e8 bc 7c 7f fe eb a1 e8 b5 7c 7f fe 4c 8b 6c 24 08 eb 05 e8 a9 7c 7f fe 49 8b 85 d8 09 00 00 <0f> b6 40 12 88 44 24 07 0f b6 6c 24 07 bf 07 00 00 00 89 ee e8 89\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000d07dc0 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888037e8d020 RCX: ffff88803b093300\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff833822c5 RDI: ffffffff8333896a\nRBP: 0000607f82031520 R08: ffff88803b093300 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000003e83 R12: ffff888037e8d020\nR13: ffff888037e8c680 R14: ffff888009af7900 R15: ffff888009af6880\nFS: 00007fc26d708640(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000012 CR3: 0000000066bc5001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n do_accept+0x1ae/0x260 net/socket.c:1872\n __sys_accept4+0x9b/0x110 net/socket.c:1913\n __do_sys_accept4 net/socket.c:1954 [inline]\n __se_sys_accept4 net/socket.c:1951 [inline]\n __x64_sys_accept4+0x20/0x30 net/socket.c:1951\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x47/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nAddress the issue by temporary removing the pending request socket\nfrom the accept queue, so that racing accept() can't touch them.\n\nAfter depleting the msk - the ssk still exists, as plain TCP sockets,\nre-insert them into the accept queue, so that later inet_csk_listen_stop()\nwill complete the tcp socket disposal."}], "id": "CVE-2023-53490", "lastModified": "2025-10-02T19:12:17.160", "metrics": {}, "published": "2025-10-01T12:15:52.107", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511b90e39250135a7f900f1c3afbce25543018a2"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2b4c84eb7149f34c0f25f17042d095ba5357d68"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ded9f5551ce5cafa3c41c794428c27a0d0a00542"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"}

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{"created": "2025-10-02T08:38:28.791981+00:00", "updated": "2025-10-02T08:38:28.792038+00:00", "vendors": ["linux", "linux$PRODUCT$linux_kernel"]}