{"id":"CVE-2025-38491","revision":null,"records":[{"revision":"aa481c5045384a02a8a611a8c5fb2e79","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2025-38491","aliases":[],"title":"mptcp: make fallback action and fallback decision atomic","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: make fallback action and fallback decision atomic\n\nSyzkaller reported the following splat:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 __mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 [inline]\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 mptcp_do_fallback net/mptcp/protocol.h:1244 [inline]\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 check_fully_established net/mptcp/options.c:982 [inline]\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7704 at net/mptcp/protocol.h:1223 mptcp_incoming_options+0x21a8/0x2510 net/mptcp/options.c:1153\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7704 Comm: syz.3.1419 Not tainted 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