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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68227" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:57:20.027Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:17.263Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" 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-2025-68227" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68227.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68227" title: "mptcp: Fix proto fallback detection with BPF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: Fix proto fallback detection with BPF\n\nThe sockmap feature allows bpf syscall from userspace, or based\non bpf sockops, replacing the sk_prot of sockets during protocol stack\nprocessing with sockmap's custom read/write interfaces.\n'''\ntcp_rcv_state_process()\n syn_recv_sock()/subflow_syn_recv_sock()\n tcp_init_transfer(BPF_SOCK_OPS_PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB)\n bpf_skops_established \u003c== sockops\n bpf_sock_map_update(sk) \u003c== call bpf helper\n tcp_bpf_update_proto() \u003c== update sk_prot\n'''\n\nWhen the server has MPTCP enabled but the client sends a TCP SYN\nwithout MPTCP, subflow_syn_recv_sock() performs a fallback on the\nsubflow, replacing the subflow sk's sk_prot with the native sk_prot.\n'''\nsubflow_syn_recv_sock()\n subflow_ulp_fallback()\n subflow_drop_ctx()\n mptcp_subflow_ops_undo_override()\n'''\n\nThen, this subflow can be normally used by sockmap, which replaces the\nnative sk_prot with sockmap's custom sk_prot. The issue occurs when the\nuser executes accept::mptcp_stream_accept::mptcp_fallback_tcp_ops().\nHere, it uses sk-\u003esk_prot to compare with the native sk_prot, but this\nis incorrect when sockmap is used, as we may incorrectly set\nsk-\u003esk_socket-\u003eops.\n\nThis fix uses the more generic sk_family for the comparison instead.\n\nAdditionally, this also prevents a WARNING from occurring:\n\nresult from ./scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh:\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 337 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:68 mptcp_stream_accept \\\n(net/mptcp/protocol.c:4005)\nModules linked in:\n...\n\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\ndo_accept (net/socket.c:1989)\n__sys_accept4 (net/socket.c:2028 net/socket.c:2057)\n__x64_sys_accept (net/socket.c:2067)\nx64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:41)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\nRIP: 0033:0x7f87ac92b83d\n\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"92c4092fe012ecdfa5fb05d394f1c1d8f91ad81c"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ee8f015eb47907745e2070184a8ab1e442ac3c4"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"344974ea1a3ca30e4920687b0091bda4438cebdb"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"037cc50589643342d69185b663ecf9d26cce91e8"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b1980b6f23fa30bf12add19f37c7458625099eb"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a0d5c74af9b6ba9ffdf1172de5a1a6df5922a00"},{"version":"0b4f33def7bbde1ce2fea05f116639270e7acdc7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c77b3b79a92e3345aa1ee296180d1af4e7031f8f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","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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