CVE-2023-54085 (GCVE-0-2023-54085)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-24 13:06
Modified
2026-10-15 21:41
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VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: fix NULL pointer dereference on fastopen early fallback
In case of early fallback to TCP, subflow_syn_recv_sock() deletes
the subflow context before returning the newly allocated sock to
the caller.
The fastopen path does not cope with the above unconditionally
dereferencing the subflow context.
References
Impacted products
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