Vulnerability · Published Dec 16, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

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

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In plain English

A security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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>

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.162-1DSA-6127-1
Debian:12linux6.1.162-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68291
Debian:14linux6.17.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-110.110UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-110.110USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1052.55USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1052.55UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1054.60USN-8258-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1054.60UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1USN-8440-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1054.57USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1USN-8179-4
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1050.56UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1050.56USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1037.40USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1037.40UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110~22.04.1USN-8179-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1051.51USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1051.51UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1051.51~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1051.51~22.04.1USN-8179-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-110.110.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-110.110.1USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110.1~22.04.1USN-8179-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1051.54UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1051.54USN-8185-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1051.54~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1051.54~22.04.1USN-8185-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1051.54.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1051.54.1USN-8185-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1022.22USN-8265-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1049.50UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1049.50USN-8203-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1049.50~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1049.50~22.04.1USN-8203-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1052.56UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1052.56USN-8179-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-110.110~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 9ea05fabce31ff93a0adae8221c58bc6d7b832f3 – before 46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295f3a13454fd098ed51e733958488f8ec62859a9ed8 – before eee39f83246a81d970a9ecb7392b7ab74e660094f6fb2cbc91a81178dea23d463503b4525a76825d – before 05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203c4f7b0916b95fd2226e5ab98882482b08f52e1c0 – before 88163f85d59b4164884df900ee171720fd26686bae155060247be8dcae3802a95bd1bdf93ab3215d – before f07f4ea53e22429c84b20832fa098b5ecc0d4e35
Linux Linux 6.1.159 – before 6.1.1606.6.119 – before 6.6.1206.12.60 – before 6.12.616.17.10 – before 6.17.11

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