In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows Dipanjan reported a syzbot splat at close time: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 10818 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153 inet_sock_destruct+0x6d0/0x8e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153 Modules linked in: uio_ivshmem(OE) uio(E) CPU: 1 PID: 10818 Comm: kworker/1:16 Tainted: G OE 5.19.0-rc6-g2eae0556bb9d #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events mptcp_worker RIP: 0010:inet_sock_destruct+0x6d0/0x8e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153 Code: 21 02 00 00 41 8b 9c 24 28 02 00 00 e9 07 ff ff ff e8 34 4d 91 f9 89 ee 4c 89 e7 e8 4a 47 60 ff e9 a6 fc ff ff e8 20 4d 91 f9 <0f> 0b e9 84 fe ff ff e8 14 4d 91 f9 0f 0b e9 d4 fd ff ff e8 08 4d RSP: 0018:ffffc9001b35fa78 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000002879d0 RCX: ffff8881326f3b00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881326f3b00 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: ffff888179662674 R08: ffffffff87e983a0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 00000000000004ea R12: ffff888179662400 R13: ffff888179662428 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88817e38e258 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f5f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020007bc0 CR3: 0000000179592000 CR4: 0000000000150ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> __sk_destruct+0x4f/0x8e0 net/core/sock.c:2067 sk_destruct+0xbd/0xe0 net/core/sock.c:2112 __sk_free+0xef/0x3d0 net/core/sock.c:2123 sk_free+0x78/0xa0 net/core/sock.c:2134 sock_put include/net/sock.h:1927 [inline] __mptcp_close_ssk+0x50f/0x780 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2351 __mptcp_destroy_sock+0x332/0x760 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2828 mptcp_worker+0x5d2/0xc90 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2586 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1650 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x623/0x1070 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302 </TASK> The root cause of the problem is that an mptcp-level (re)transmit can race with mptcp_close() and the packet scheduler checks the subflow state before acquiring the socket lock: we can try to (re)transmit on an already closed ssk. Fix the issue checking again the subflow socket status under the subflow socket lock protection. Additionally add the missing check for the fallback-to-tcp case.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19492 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len (CVE-2023-53125)

    * kernel: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix potential buffer overflow by snprintf() (CVE-2022-50050)

    * kernel: mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

    * kernel: RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free (CVE-2022-50137)

    * kernel: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CVE-2022-50228)

    * kernel: HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits (CVE-2025-38556)

    * kernel: eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion (CVE-2025-38614)

    * kernel: tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async (CVE-2024-58240)

    * kernel: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control (CVE-2025-39751)

    * kernel: crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly (CVE-2023-53373)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19268 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len (CVE-2023-53125)

    * kernel: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix potential buffer overflow by snprintf() (CVE-2022-50050)

    * kernel: mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

    * kernel: RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free (CVE-2022-50137)

    * kernel: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CVE-2022-50228)

    * kernel: HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits (CVE-2025-38556)

    * kernel: eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion (CVE-2025-38614)

    * kernel: tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async (CVE-2024-58240)

    * kernel: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control (CVE-2025-39751)

    * kernel: crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly (CVE-2023-53373)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19222 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register() (CVE-2025-22026)

    * kernel: net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling (CVE-2025-37797)

    * kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len (CVE-2023-53125)

    * kernel: mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

    * kernel: RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free (CVE-2022-50137)

    * kernel: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CVE-2022-50228)

    * kernel: HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits (CVE-2025-38556)

    * kernel: NFS: Fix filehandle bounds checking in nfs_fh_to_dentry() (CVE-2025-39730)

    * kernel: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control (CVE-2025-39751)

    * kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free (CVE-2023-53305)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.189-131.211. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-088 advisory.

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

    dma-buf/dma-resv: check if the new fence is really later (CVE-2022-49935)

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

    mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

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

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation (CVE-2025-38162)

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

    fbdev: Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var (CVE-2025-38215)

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

    af_unix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs. (CVE-2025-38236)

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

    bridge: mcast: Fix use-after-free during router port configuration (CVE-2025-38248)

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

    netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() (CVE-2025-38727)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.240-238.966. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-103 advisory.

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

    dma-buf/dma-resv: check if the new fence is really later (CVE-2022-49935)

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

    cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate() (CVE-2022-49938)

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

    mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

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

    dma-buf: insert memory barrier before updating num_fences (CVE-2025-38095)

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

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation (CVE-2025-38162)

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

    fbdev: Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var (CVE-2025-38215)

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

    netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() (CVE-2025-38727)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows Dipanjan reported a syzbot splat at close time: WARNING: CPU:
    1 PID: 10818 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153 inet_sock_destruct+0x6d0/0x8e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153 Modules     linked in: uio_ivshmem(OE) uio(E) CPU: 1 PID: 10818 Comm: kworker/1:16 Tainted: G OE     5.19.0-rc6-g2eae0556bb9d #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1     04/01/2014 Workqueue: events mptcp_worker RIP: 0010:inet_sock_destruct+0x6d0/0x8e0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:153     Code: 21 02 00 00 41 8b 9c 24 28 02 00 00 e9 07 ff ff ff e8 34 4d 91 f9 89 ee 4c 89 e7 e8 4a 47 60 ff e9     a6 fc ff ff e8 20 4d 91 f9 <0f> 0b e9 84 fe ff ff e8 14 4d 91 f9 0f 0b e9 d4 fd ff ff e8 08 4d RSP:
    0018:ffffc9001b35fa78 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000002879d0 RCX: ffff8881326f3b00     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881326f3b00 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: ffff888179662674 R08:
    ffffffff87e983a0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 00000000000004ea R12: ffff888179662400     R13: ffff888179662428 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88817e38e258 FS: 0000000000000000(0000)     GS:ffff8881f5f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
    0000000020007bc0 CR3: 0000000179592000 CR4: 0000000000150ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> __sk_destruct+0x4f/0x8e0     net/core/sock.c:2067 sk_destruct+0xbd/0xe0 net/core/sock.c:2112 __sk_free+0xef/0x3d0 net/core/sock.c:2123     sk_free+0x78/0xa0 net/core/sock.c:2134 sock_put include/net/sock.h:1927 [inline]
    __mptcp_close_ssk+0x50f/0x780 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2351 __mptcp_destroy_sock+0x332/0x760     net/mptcp/protocol.c:2828 mptcp_worker+0x5d2/0xc90 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2586 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1650     kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x623/0x1070 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0     kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302 </TASK> The root cause of the     problem is that an mptcp-level (re)transmit can race with mptcp_close() and the packet scheduler checks     the subflow state before acquiring the socket lock: we can try to (re)transmit on an already closed ssk.
    Fix the issue checking again the subflow socket status under the subflow socket lock protection.
    Additionally add the missing check for the fallback-to-tcp case. (CVE-2022-50070)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
272215	RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2025:19492)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
272004	RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2025:19268)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
271975	RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2025:19222)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
261436	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-088 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-088)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
261434	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-103 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-103)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
244356	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50070	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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