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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 22, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 22, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: fix tcp_mtup_probe_success vs wrong snd_cwnd

syzbot got a new report [1] finally pointing to a very old bug,
added in initial support for MTU probing.

tcp_mtu_probe() has checks about starting an MTU probe if
tcp_snd_cwnd(tp) >= 11.

But nothing prevents tcp_snd_cwnd(tp) to be reduced later
and before the MTU probe succeeds.

This bug would lead to potential zero-divides.

Debugging added in commit 40570375356c ("tcp: add accessors
to read/set tp->snd_cwnd") has paid off :)

While we are at it, address potential overflows in this code.

[1]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14132 at include/net/tcp.h:1219 tcp_mtup_probe_success+0x366/0x570 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2712
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 14132 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-07857-gbabf0bb978e3 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:tcp_snd_cwnd_set include/net/tcp.h:1219 [inline]
RIP: 0010:tcp_mtup_probe_success+0x366/0x570 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2712
Code: 74 08 48 89 ef e8 da 80 17 f9 48 8b 45 00 65 48 ff 80 80 03 00 00 48 83 c4 30 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 aa b0 c5 f8 <0f> 0b e9 16 fe ff ff 48 8b 4c 24 08 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c c7 fc ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900079e70f8 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffffffff88c0f7f6 RBX: ffff8880756e7a80 RCX: 0000000000040000
RDX: ffffc9000c6c4000 RSI: 0000000000031f9e RDI: 0000000000031f9f
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff88c0f606 R09: ffffc900079e7520
R10: ffffed101011226d R11: 1ffff1101011226c R12: 1ffff1100eadcf50
R13: ffff8880756e72c0 R14: 1ffff1100eadcf89 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 00007f643236e700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1ab3f1e2a0 CR3: 0000000064fe7000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

tcp_clean_rtx_queue+0x223a/0x2da0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3356
tcp_ack+0x1962/0x3c90 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3861
tcp_rcv_established+0x7c8/0x1ac0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5973
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x57b/0x1210 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1476
sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1061 [inline]
__release_sock+0x1d8/0x4c0 net/core/sock.c:2849
release_sock+0x5d/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:3404
sk_stream_wait_memory+0x700/0xdc0 net/core/stream.c:145
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x111d/0x3fc0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1410
tcp_sendmsg+0x2c/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1448
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x439/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2119
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2131 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2127 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2127
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f6431289109
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f643236e168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f643139c100 RCX: 00007f6431289109
RDX: 00000000d0d0c2ac RSI: 0000000020000080 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 00007f64312e308d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fff372533af R14: 00007f643236e300 R15: 0000000000022000

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 22, 2025
Last updated Sep 22, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(7th percentile)

Weaknesses

Divide By Zero

The product divides a value by zero. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49330

GHSA ID

GHSA-ff7q-8m86-737m

Source code

No known source code

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