CVE-2025-38491
CVE-2025-38491CVE-2025-38491
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: make fallback action and fallback decision atomic
Syzkaller reported the following splat:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 __mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1244 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 check_fully_established net/mptcp/options.c:982 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 mptcp_incoming_options+0x21a8/0x2510 net/mptcp/options.c:1153
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7704 Comm: syz.3.1419 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-gbd5ce2324dba #20 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1244 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_ful
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.2 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |