Bug 2439885 (CVE-2026-23169) - CVE-2026-23169 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in MPTCP due to a race condition
Summary: CVE-2026-23169 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in MPTCP due to a race...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23169
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-14 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-17 04:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-14 17:01:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()

syzbot and Eulgyu Kim reported crashes in mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id()
and/or mptcp_pm_nl_is_backup()

Root cause is list_splice_init() in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()
which is not RCU ready.

list_splice_init_rcu() can not be called here while holding pernet->lock
spinlock.

Many thanks to Eulgyu Kim for providing a repro and testing our patches.


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