CVE-2022-49669

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49669
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49669.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49669
Downstream
Published
2025-02-26T02:24:03Z
Modified
2025-10-15T23:26:46.357193Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets
Details

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

mptcp: fix race on unaccepted mptcp sockets

When the listener socket owning the relevant request is closed, it frees the unaccepted subflows and that causes later deletion of the paired MPTCP sockets.

The mptcp socket's worker can run in the time interval between such delete operations. When that happens, any access to msk->first will cause an UaF access, as the subflow cleanup did not cleared such field in the mptcp socket.

Address the issue explicitly traversing the listener socket accept queue at close time and performing the needed cleanup on the pending msk.

Note that the locking is a bit tricky, as we need to acquire the msk socket lock, while still owning the subflow socket one.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
86e39e04482b0aadf3ee3ed5fcf2d63816559d36
Fixed
a8a3e95c74e48c2c9b07b81fafda9122993f2e12
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
86e39e04482b0aadf3ee3ed5fcf2d63816559d36
Fixed
6aeed9045071f2252ff4e98fc13d1e304f33e5b0

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.16
v5.17
v5.17-rc1
v5.17-rc2
v5.17-rc3
v5.17-rc4
v5.17-rc5
v5.17-rc6
v5.17-rc7
v5.17-rc8
v5.18
v5.18-rc1
v5.18-rc2
v5.18-rc3
v5.18-rc4
v5.18-rc5
v5.18-rc6
v5.18-rc7
v5.18.1
v5.18.2
v5.18.3
v5.18.4
v5.18.5
v5.18.6
v5.18.7
v5.18.8
v5.18.9
v5.19-rc1
v5.19-rc2
v5.19-rc3

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
5.18.10