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

mptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().

syzbot reported divide-by-zero in __tcp_select_window() by
MPTCP socket. [0]

We had a similar issue for the bare TCP and fixed in commit
499350a5a6e7 ("tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead
of 0").

Let's apply the same fix to mptcp_do_fastclose().

[0]:
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6068 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x824/0x1320 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3336
Code: ff ff ff 44 89 f1 d3 e0 89 c1 f7 d1 41 01 cc 41 21 c4 e9 a9 00 00 00 e8 ca 49 01 f8 e9 9c 00 00 00 e8 c0 49 01 f8 44 89 e0 99 <f7> 7c 24 1c 41 29 d4 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e9 80 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003017640 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807b469e40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003017730 R08: ffff888033268143 R09: 1ffff1100664d028
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100664d029 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 000055557faa0500(0000) GS:ffff888126135000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f64a1912ff8 CR3: 0000000072122000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tcp_select_window net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:281 [inline]
__tcp_transmit_skb+0xbc7/0x3aa0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1568
tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1649 [inline]
tcp_send_active_reset+0x2d1/0x5b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3836
mptcp_do_fastclose+0x27e/0x380 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2793
mptcp_disconnect+0x238/0x710 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3253
mptcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x2f8/0x580 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1776
mptcp_sendmsg+0x1774/0x1980 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1855
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x270 net/socket.c:742
__sys_sendto+0x3bd/0x520 net/socket.c:2244
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2251 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2247 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2247
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f66e998f749
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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffff9acedb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f66e9be5fa0 RCX: 00007f66e998f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffff9acee10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R14: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R15: 0000000000000006
</TASK>
Published: 2025-12-16
Score: 7.0 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4476-1 linux-6.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6127-1 linux security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8179-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8184-1 Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8179-2 Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8185-1 Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8179-3 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8203-1 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8204-1 Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8185-2 Linux kernel (Low Latency NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8179-4 Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8258-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8260-1 Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8265-1 Linux kernel (NVIDIA Tegra) vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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 cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose(). syzbot reported divide-by-zero in __tcp_select_window() by MPTCP socket. [0] We had a similar issue for the bare TCP and fixed in commit 499350a5a6e7 ("tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0"). Let's apply the same fix to mptcp_do_fastclose(). [0]: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6068 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 RIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x824/0x1320 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3336 Code: ff ff ff 44 89 f1 d3 e0 89 c1 f7 d1 41 01 cc 41 21 c4 e9 a9 00 00 00 e8 ca 49 01 f8 e9 9c 00 00 00 e8 c0 49 01 f8 44 89 e0 99 <f7> 7c 24 1c 41 29 d4 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e9 80 00 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003017640 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807b469e40 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc90003017730 R08: ffff888033268143 R09: 1ffff1100664d028 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100664d029 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 000055557faa0500(0000) GS:ffff888126135000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f64a1912ff8 CR3: 0000000072122000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: <TASK> tcp_select_window net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:281 [inline] __tcp_transmit_skb+0xbc7/0x3aa0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1568 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1649 [inline] tcp_send_active_reset+0x2d1/0x5b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3836 mptcp_do_fastclose+0x27e/0x380 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2793 mptcp_disconnect+0x238/0x710 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3253 mptcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x2f8/0x580 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1776 mptcp_sendmsg+0x1774/0x1980 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1855 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x270 net/socket.c:742 __sys_sendto+0x3bd/0x520 net/socket.c:2244 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2251 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2247 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2247 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f66e998f749 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffff9acedb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f66e9be5fa0 RCX: 00007f66e998f749 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffff9acee10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R14: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R15: 0000000000000006 </TASK>
Title mptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
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Linux Linux Kernel
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-11T21:50:19.280Z

Reserved: 2025-12-16T14:48:05.292Z

Link: CVE-2025-68291

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-12-16T16:16:07.980

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-68291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-68291 - Bugzilla

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