CVE-2025-38552

Name	CVE-2025-38552
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: plug races between subflow fail and subflow creation We have races similar to the one addressed by the previous patch between subflow failing and additional subflow creation. They are just harder to trigger. The solution is similar. Use a separate flag to track the condition 'socket state prevent any additional subflow creation' protected by the fallback lock. The socket fallback makes such flag true, and also receiving or sending an MP_FAIL option. The field 'allow_infinite_fallback' is now always touched under the relevant lock, we can drop the ONCE annotation on write.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.147-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.43-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.41-1	fixed
	forky	6.16.3-1	fixed
	sid	6.16.7-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	trixie	6.12.41-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.16.3-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/def5b7b2643ebba696fc60ddf675dca13f073486 (6.16-rc7)