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CVE-2025-68291: mptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203, 46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295f, 6.1.160; azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.121.1-1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203, 46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295f, 6.1.160; azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.121.1-1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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>

—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 12th percentile
CWE
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0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

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    • 9ea05fabce31ff93a0adae8221c58bc6d7b832f3 and later · before 46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295faffected · git
    • 3a13454fd098ed51e733958488f8ec62859a9ed8 and later · before eee39f83246a81d970a9ecb7392b7ab74e660094affected · git
    • f6fb2cbc91a81178dea23d463503b4525a76825d and later · before 05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203affected · git
    • c4f7b0916b95fd2226e5ab98882482b08f52e1c0 and later · before 88163f85d59b4164884df900ee171720fd26686baffected · git
    • ae155060247be8dcae3802a95bd1bdf93ab3215d and later · before f07f4ea53e22429c84b20832fa098b5ecc0d4e35affected · git
    • 6.1.159 and later · before 6.1.160affected · semver
    • 6.6.119 and later · before 6.6.120affected · semver
    • 6.12.60 and later · before 6.12.61affected · semver
    • 6.17.10 and later · before 6.17.11affected · semver

Package-level exposure

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EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.162-16.1.162-1
Debian:14linuxbefore 6.17.11-16.17.11-1

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Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295fVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.1.160Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.12.61Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.17.11Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.6.120Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux88163f85d59b4164884df900ee171720fd26686bVendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxeee39f83246a81d970a9ecb7392b7ab74e660094Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxf07f4ea53e22429c84b20832fa098b5ecc0d4e35Vendor (CNA)
azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.06.6.121.1-1 · CBL-Mariner ReleasesMicrosoft (MSRC)
debian:linux6.1.162-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

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