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Tracker / CVE-2026-23169

CVE-2026-23169

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.201
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.164
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.9
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.125
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.72

Analysis

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