{"cve":"CVE-2025-68291","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-16T16:16:07.980","modified":"2026-10-15T02:18:11.593","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().\n\nsyzbot reported divide-by-zero in __tcp_select_window() by\nMPTCP socket. [0]\n\nWe had a similar issue for the bare TCP and fixed in commit\n499350a5a6e7 (\"tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead\nof 0\").\n\nLet's apply the same fix to mptcp_do_fastclose().\n\n[0]:\nOops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6068 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025\nRIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x824/0x1320 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3336\nCode: 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\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90003017640 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807b469e40\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: ffffc90003017730 R08: ffff888033268143 R09: 1ffff1100664d028\nR10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100664d029 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  000055557faa0500(0000) GS:ffff888126135000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f64a1912ff8 CR3: 0000000072122000 CR4: 00000000003526f0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n tcp_select_window net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:281 [inline]\n __tcp_transmit_skb+0xbc7/0x3aa0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1568\n tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1649 [inline]\n tcp_send_active_reset+0x2d1/0x5b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3836\n mptcp_do_fastclose+0x27e/0x380 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2793\n mptcp_disconnect+0x238/0x710 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3253\n mptcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x2f8/0x580 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1776\n mptcp_sendmsg+0x1774/0x1980 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1855\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x270 net/socket.c:742\n __sys_sendto+0x3bd/0x520 net/socket.c:2244\n __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2251 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2247 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2247\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f66e998f749\nCode: 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\nRSP: 002b:00007ffff9acedb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f66e9be5fa0 RCX: 00007f66e998f749\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00007ffff9acee10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001\nR13: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R14: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R15: 0000000000000006\n </TASK>","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05f5e26d488cdc7abc2a826cf1071782d5a21203","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46b8b58f93f1b383c3840fc6e8fab6c3bce9295f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88163f85d59b4164884df900ee171720fd26686b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eee39f83246a81d970a9ecb7392b7ab74e660094","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f07f4ea53e22429c84b20832fa098b5ecc0d4e35"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:17:07.138532058+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-68291","score":0.00216,"percentile":0.11903,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}