CVE-2026-23169

Updated on 14 Feb 2026

Severity

4.7 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.7
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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.