# CVE-2024-57882: mptcp: fix TCP options overflow.

> A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via crafted TCP options.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 15 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-55851, AZL-55874, BELL-CVE-2024-57882, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57882, GHSA-w373-phfp-m2jq, SUSE-SU-2025:1059-1, SUSE-SU-2025:1066-1, SUSE-SU-2025:1076-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20342-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20350-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20366-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20370-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57882

## What is CVE-2024-57882?

CVE-2024-57882 is a critical vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

mptcp: fix TCP options overflow.

Syzbot reported the following splat:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5836 Comm: sshd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/25/2024
RIP: 0010:_compound_head include/linux/page-flags.h:242 [inline]
RIP: 0010:put_page+0x23/0x260 include/linux/mm.h:1552
Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 41 57 41 56 53 49 89 fe 48 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 f8 5e 12 f8 49 8d 5e 08 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 8f c7 78 f8 48 8b 1b 48 89 de 48 83
RSP: 0000:ffffc90003916c90 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: ffff888030458000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff898ca81d R09: 1ffff110054414ac
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10054414ad R12: 0000000000000007
R13: ffff88802a20a542 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f34f496e800(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9d6ec9ec28 CR3: 000000004d260000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 skb_page_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:43 [inline]
 __skb_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:56 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x483/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1119
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]
 __kfree_skb+0x55/0x70 net/core/skbuff.c:1204
 tcp_clean_rtx_queue net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3436 [inline]
 tcp_ack+0x2442/0x6bc0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4032
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0x8eb/0x44e0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6805
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x77d/0xc70 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1939
 tcp_v4_rcv+0x2dc0/0x37f0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2351
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x22e/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205
 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x341/0x5f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233
 NF_HOOK+0x3a4/0x450 include/linux/netfilter.h:314
 NF_HOOK+0x3a4/0x450 include/linux/netfilter.h:314
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5672 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x2bf/0x650 net/core/dev.c:5785
 process_backlog+0x662/0x15b0 net/core/dev.c:6117
 __napi_poll+0xcb/0x490 net/core/dev.c:6883
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6952 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x89b/0x1240 net/core/dev.c:7074
 handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
RIP: 0033:0x7f34f4519ad5
Code: 85 d2 74 0d 0f 10 02 48 8d 54 24 20 0f 11 44 24 20 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 27 41 b8 08 00 00 00 b8 0f 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 75 48 8b 15 24 73 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 83
RSP: 002b:00007ffec5b32ce0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000000668a0 RCX: 00007f34f4519ad5
RDX: 00007ffec5b32d00 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000564f4bc6cae0
RBP: 0000564f4bc6b5a0 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007ffec5b32de8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000564f48ea8aa4
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000564f48ea93e8 R15: 00007ffec5b32d68
 </TASK>

Eric noted a probable shinfo->nr_frags corruption, which indeed
occurs.

The root cause is a buggy MPTCP option len computation in some
circumstances: the ADD_ADDR option should be mutually exclusive
with DSS since the blamed commit.

Still, mptcp_established_options_add_addr() tries to set the
relevant info in mptcp_out_options, if 
---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57882?

It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_2` | SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP6 | All versions | 7-150600.2.1 |
| `kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_3` | SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP6 | All versions | 7-150600.2.1 |
| `kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_7` | SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP6 | All versions | 3-150600.2.1 |
| `kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_5` | SUSE:Linux Micro 6.0 | All versions | 2-1.1 |
| `kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_5` | SUSE:Linux Micro 6.0 | All versions | 2-1.2 |
| `kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_5` | SUSE:Linux Micro 6.1 | All versions | 2-1.1 |
| `kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_5` | SUSE:Linux Micro 6.1 | All versions | 2-1.2 |

Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-57882?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-57882 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57882 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-57882 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-57882 is a critical vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57882 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57882/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57882/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57882
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57882
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-57882

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