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CVE-2024-57882 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix TCP options overflow

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix TCP options overflow. Syzbot reported the following splat: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5836 Comm: sshd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/25/2024 RIP: 0010:_compound_head include/linux/page-flags.h:242 [inline] RIP: 0010:put_page+0x23/0x260 include/linux/mm.h:1552 Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 41 57 41 56 53 49 89 fe 48 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 f8 5e 12 f8 49 8d 5e 08 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 8f c7 78 f8 48 8b 1b 48 89 de 48 83 RSP: 0000:ffffc90003916c90 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: ffff888030458000 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff898ca81d R09: 1ffff110054414ac R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10054414ad R12: 0000000000000007 R13: ffff88802a20a542 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f34f496e…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-01-15
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.13

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Matched remediation archetype

Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption

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Check exposure

  • Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
  • Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
  • Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
  • Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
  • Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.

Authoritative sources

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