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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 12, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

mptcp: ensure tx skbs always have the MPTCP ext

Due to signed/unsigned comparison, the expression:

info->size_goal - skb->len > 0

evaluates to true when the size goal is smaller than the
skb size. That results in lack of tx cache refill, so that
the skb allocated by the core TCP code lacks the required
MPTCP skb extensions.

Due to the above, syzbot is able to trigger the following WARN_ON():

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 810 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1366 mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0x1362/0x1bc0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1366
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 810 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.14.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0x1362/0x1bc0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1366
Code: ff 4c 8b 74 24 50 48 8b 5c 24 58 e9 0f fb ff ff e8 13 44 8b f8 4c 89 e7 45 31 ed e8 98 57 2e fe e9 81 f4 ff ff e8 fe 43 8b f8 <0f> 0b 41 bd ea ff ff ff e9 6f f4 ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 b9 8e d2 f8 e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000531f6a0 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: 000000000000697f RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90012107000
RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: ffffffff88eac9e2 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffff888078b15780 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff88eac017 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88801de0a280
R13: 0000000000006b58 R14: ffff888066278280 R15: ffff88803c2fe9c0
FS: 00007fd9f866e700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007faebcb2f718 CR3: 00000000267cb000 CR4: 00000000001506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
__mptcp_push_pending+0x1fb/0x6b0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1547
mptcp_release_cb+0xfe/0x210 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3003
release_sock+0xb4/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3206
sk_stream_wait_memory+0x604/0xed0 net/core/stream.c:145
mptcp_sendmsg+0xc39/0x1bc0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1749
inet6_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:643
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:724
sock_write_iter+0x2a0/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1057
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2163 [inline]
new_sync_write+0x40b/0x640 fs/read_write.c:507
vfs_write+0x7cf/0xae0 fs/read_write.c:594
ksys_write+0x1ee/0x250 fs/read_write.c:647
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x4665f9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fd9f866e188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000056c038 RCX: 00000000004665f9
RDX: 00000000000e7b78 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000004bfcc4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000056c038
R13: 0000000000a9fb1f R14: 00007fd9f866e300 R15: 0000000000022000

Fix the issue rewriting the relevant expression to avoid
sign-related problems - note: size_goal is always >= 0.

Additionally, ensure that the skb in the tx cache always carries
the relevant extension.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated May 12, 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.
(15th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47370

GHSA ID

GHSA-6xc5-7hvv-v7jc

Source code

No known source code

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