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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21710" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:07:23.112Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:53:49.495Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21710" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21710.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21710" title: "tcp: correct handling of extreme memory squeeze" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: correct handling of extreme memory squeeze\n\nTesting with iperf3 using the \"pasta\" protocol splicer has revealed\na problem in the way tcp handles window advertising in extreme memory\nsqueeze situations.\n\nUnder memory pressure, a socket endpoint may temporarily advertise\na zero-sized window, but this is not stored as part of the socket data.\nThe reasoning behind this is that it is considered a temporary setting\nwhich shouldn't influence any further calculations.\n\nHowever, if we happen to stall at an unfortunate value of the current\nwindow size, the algorithm selecting a new value will consistently fail\nto advertise a non-zero window once we have freed up enough memory.\nThis means that this side's notion of the current window size is\ndifferent from the one last advertised to the peer, causing the latter\nto not send any data to resolve the sitution.\n\nThe problem occurs on the iperf3 server side, and the socket in question\nis a completely regular socket with the default settings for the\nfedora40 kernel. We do not use SO_PEEK or SO_RCVBUF on the socket.\n\nThe following excerpt of a logging session, with own comments added,\nshows more in detail what is happening:\n\n// tcp_v4_rcv(-\u003e)\n// tcp_rcv_established(-\u003e)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: ==== Activating log @ net/ipv4/tcp_input.c/tcp_data_queue()/5257 ====\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_data_queue(-\u003e)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: DROPPING skb [265600160..265665640], reason: SKB_DROP_REASON_PROTO_MEM\n [rcv_nxt 265600160, rcv_wnd 262144, snt_ack 265469200, win_now 131184]\n [copied_seq 259909392-\u003e260034360 (124968), unread 5565800, qlen 85, ofoq 0]\n [OFO queue: gap: 65480, len: 0]\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_data_queue(\u003c-)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: __tcp_transmit_skb(-\u003e)\n [tp-\u003ercv_wup: 265469200, tp-\u003ercv_wnd: 262144, tp-\u003ercv_nxt 265600160]\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_select_window(-\u003e)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: (inet_csk(sk)-\u003eicsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_NOMEM) ? --\u003e TRUE\n [tp-\u003ercv_wup: 265469200, tp-\u003ercv_wnd: 262144, tp-\u003ercv_nxt 265600160]\n returning 0\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_select_window(\u003c-)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: ADVERTISING WIN 0, ACK_SEQ: 265600160\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: [__tcp_transmit_skb(\u003c-)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_rcv_established(\u003c-)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_v4_rcv(\u003c-)\n\n// Receive queue is at 85 buffers and we are out of memory.\n// We drop the incoming buffer, although it is in sequence, and decide\n// to send an advertisement with a window of zero.\n// We don't update tp-\u003ercv_wnd and tp-\u003ercv_wup accordingly, which means\n// we unconditionally shrink the window.\n\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_recvmsg_locked(-\u003e)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: __tcp_cleanup_rbuf(-\u003e) tp-\u003ercv_wup: 265469200, tp-\u003ercv_wnd: 262144, tp-\u003ercv_nxt 265600160\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: [new_win = 0, win_now = 131184, 2 * win_now = 262368]\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: [new_win \u003e= (2 * win_now) ? --\u003e time_to_ack = 0]\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: NOT calling tcp_send_ack()\n [tp-\u003ercv_wup: 265469200, tp-\u003ercv_wnd: 262144, tp-\u003ercv_nxt 265600160]\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: __tcp_cleanup_rbuf(\u003c-)\n [rcv_nxt 265600160, rcv_wnd 262144, snt_ack 265469200, win_now 131184]\n [copied_seq 260040464-\u003e260040464 (0), unread 5559696, qlen 85, ofoq 0]\n returning 6104 bytes\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_recvmsg_locked(\u003c-)\n\n// After each read, the algorithm for calculating the new receive\n// window in __tcp_cleanup_rbuf() finds it is too small to advertise\n// or to update tp-\u003ercv_wnd.\n// Meanwhile, the peer thinks the window is zero, and will not send\n// any more data to trigger an update from the interrupt mode side.\n\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: tcp_recvmsg_locked(-\u003e)\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: __tcp_cleanup_rbuf(-\u003e) tp-\u003ercv_wup: 265469200, tp-\u003ercv_wnd: 262144, tp-\u003ercv_nxt 265600160\n[5201\u003c-\u003e39222]: [new_win = 262144, win_now = 131184, 2 * win_n\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2142825c120d4317abf7160a0fc34b3de532586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b01e7ceb35dcb7ffad413da657b78c3340a09039"},{"version":"e2142825c120d4317abf7160a0fc34b3de532586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1dd823a46e25ffde1492c391934f69a9e5eb574f"},{"version":"e2142825c120d4317abf7160a0fc34b3de532586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4055e2fe96f4ef101d8af0feb056d78d77514ff"},{"version":"e2142825c120d4317abf7160a0fc34b3de532586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c670bdfa58e48abad1d5b6ca1ee843ca91f7303"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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