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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40257"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:18.433Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:57.025Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-40257"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40257.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40257"
title: "mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()\n\nmptcp_pm_del_add_timer() can call sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &entry-\u003eadd_timer)\nwhile another might have free entry already, as reported by syzbot.\n\nAdd RCU protection to fix this issue.\n\nAlso change confusing add_timer variable with stop_timer boolean.\n\nsyzbot report:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __timer_delete_sync+0x372/0x3f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1616\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff8880311e4150 by task kworker/1:1/44\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 44 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025\nWorkqueue: events mptcp_worker\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n  print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482\n  kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595\n  __timer_delete_sync+0x372/0x3f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1616\n  sk_stop_timer_sync+0x1b/0x90 net/core/sock.c:3631\n  mptcp_pm_del_add_timer+0x283/0x310 net/mptcp/pm.c:362\n  mptcp_incoming_options+0x1357/0x1f60 net/mptcp/options.c:1174\n  tcp_data_queue+0xca/0x6450 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5361\n  tcp_rcv_established+0x1335/0x2670 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6441\n  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x98b/0xbf0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1931\n  tcp_v4_rcv+0x252a/0x2dc0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2374\n  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x221/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205\n  ip_local_deliver_finish+0x3bb/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:239\n  NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318\n  NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318\n  __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6079 [inline]\n  __netif_receive_skb+0x143/0x380 net/core/dev.c:6192\n  process_backlog+0x31e/0x900 net/core/dev.c:6544\n  __napi_poll+0xb6/0x540 net/core/dev.c:7594\n  napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7657 [inline]\n  net_rx_action+0x5f7/0xda0 net/core/dev.c:7784\n  handle_softirqs+0x22f/0x710 kernel/softirq.c:622\n  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]\n  __local_bh_enable_ip+0x1a0/0x2e0 kernel/softirq.c:302\n  mptcp_pm_send_ack net/mptcp/pm.c:210 [inline]\n mptcp_pm_addr_send_ack+0x41f/0x500 net/mptcp/pm.c:-1\n  mptcp_pm_worker+0x174/0x320 net/mptcp/pm.c:1002\n  mptcp_worker+0xd5/0x1170 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2762\n  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]\n  process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346\n  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427\n  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463\n  ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 44:\n  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]\n  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77\n  poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]\n  __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417\n  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]\n  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1ef/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5748\n  kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]\n  mptcp_pm_alloc_anno_list+0x104/0x460 net/mptcp/pm.c:385\n  mptcp_pm_create_subflow_or_signal_addr+0xf9d/0x1360 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:355\n  mptcp_pm_nl_fully_established net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:409 [inline]\n  __mptcp_pm_kernel_worker+0x417/0x1ef0 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1529\n  mptcp_pm_worker+0x1ee/0x320 net/mptcp/pm.c:1008\n  mptcp_worker+0xd5/0x1170 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2762\n  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]\n  process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346\n  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427\n  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463\n  ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n\nFreed by task 6630:\n  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]\n  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77\n  __kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:587\n  kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]\n  poison_slab_object m\n---truncated---"
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