CVE-2026-23169 – mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()

CVE ID : CVE-2026-23169

Published : Feb. 14, 2026, 4:15 p.m. | 14 minutes ago

Description : 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.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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