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GHSA-FFG6-3WFR-47XC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-03-25 09:32 – Updated: 2025-03-13 21:31

Details

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

mptcp: fix data stream corruption

Maxim reported several issues when forcing a TCP transparent proxy to use the MPTCP protocol for the inbound connections. He also provided a clean reproducer.

The problem boils down to 'mptcp_frag_can_collapse_to()' assuming that only MPTCP will use the given page_frag.

If others - e.g. the plain TCP protocol - allocate page fragments, we can end-up re-using already allocated memory for mptcp_data_frag.

Fix the issue ensuring that the to-be-expanded data fragment is located at the current page frag end.

v1 -> v2: - added missing fixes tag (Mat)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2021-47152 (GCVE-0-2021-47152)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-25 09:07 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:46

Title

mptcp: fix data stream corruption

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix data stream corruption Maxim reported several issues when forcing a TCP transparent proxy to use the MPTCP protocol for the inbound connections. He also provided a clean reproducer. The problem boils down to 'mptcp_frag_can_collapse_to()' assuming that only MPTCP will use the given page_frag. If others - e.g. the plain TCP protocol - allocate page fragments, we can end-up re-using already allocated memory for mptcp_data_frag. Fix the issue ensuring that the to-be-expanded data fragment is located at the current page frag end. v1 -> v2: - added missing fixes tag (Mat)

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:54 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e7f0580da15cac1…
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Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.42 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.9 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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