CVE-2025-38552

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: plug races between subflow fail and subflow creation We have races similar to the one addressed by the previous patch between subflow failing and additional subflow creation. They are just harder to trigger. The solution is similar. Use a separate flag to track the condition 'socket state prevent any additional subflow creation' protected by the fallback lock. The socket fallback makes such flag true, and also receiving or sending an MP_FAIL option. The field 'allow_infinite_fallback' is now always touched under the relevant lock, we can drop the ONCE annotation on write.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f81b6fbe13c7fc413b5158cdffc6a59391a2a8db

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/def5b7b2643ebba696fc60ddf675dca13f073486

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c96d519ee15a130842a6513530b4d20acd2bfcd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/659da22dee5ff316ba63bdaeeac7b58b5442f6c2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-16

Updated: 2025-08-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018