Local kernel-state corruption via closed-subflow retransmission race
Published Jun 18, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem allows local users to corrupt socket state and interrupt the host. The packet scheduler checks subflow state before taking the socket lock, so retransmission can enqueue data on a subflow that mptcp_close() has already closed. An unprivileged process can trigger the race with MPTCP socket operations when MPTCP is enabled; the demonstrated warning can become a kernel panic when panic-on-warning behavior is configured.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem allows local users to corrupt socket state and interrupt the host. The packet scheduler checks subflow state before taking the socket lock, so retransmission can enqueue data on a subflow that mptcp_close() has already closed. An unprivileged process can trigger the race with MPTCP socket operations when MPTCP is enabled; the demonstrated warning can become a kernel panic when panic-on-warning behavior is configured.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-50070
- Published
- Jun 18, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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- Jun 18, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.10
- Affected versionversion=d5f49190def61c47b2faff170ba8fbc48bac4371 <8caf5c15b5288d52d9c89374d6c10fa32ee84ec5
- Affected versionversion=d5f49190def61c47b2faff170ba8fbc48bac4371 <c886d70286bf3ad411eb3d689328a67f7102c6ae
- Affected versionversion=d5f49190def61c47b2faff170ba8fbc48bac4371 <fb9c73ef2ac2ec816efdc8b9267bc04e1369c20b
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