Bug 2482170 (CVE-2026-45889) - CVE-2026-45889 kernel: mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()
Summary: CVE-2026-45889 kernel: mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-45889
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 02:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:14:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: do not account for OoO in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow()

MPTCP-level OoOs are physiological when multiple subflows are active
concurrently and will not cause retransmissions nor are caused by
drops.

Accounting for them in mptcp_rcvbuf_grow() causes the rcvbuf slowly
drifting towards tcp_rmem[2].

Remove such accounting. Note that subflows will still account for TCP-level
OoO when the MPTCP-level rcvbuf is propagated.

This also closes a subtle and very unlikely race condition with rcvspace
init; active sockets with user-space holding the msk-level socket lock,
could complete such initialization in the receive callback, after that the
first OoO data reaches the rcvbuf and potentially triggering a divide by
zero Oops.


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