# CVE-2025-68291: mptcp: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().

> A divide-by-zero error in the Linux kernel MPTCP implementation allows remote attackers to cause a system crash via crafted network traffic.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-74172, BELL-CVE-2025-68291, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68291, GHSA-92x9-c26m-74g2, OESA-2026-1949, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-68291, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68291

## What is CVE-2025-68291?

CVE-2025-68291 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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: Initialise rcv_mss before calling tcp_send_active_reset() in mptcp_do_fastclose().

syzbot reported divide-by-zero in __tcp_select_window() by
MPTCP socket. [0]

We had a similar issue for the bare TCP and fixed in commit
499350a5a6e7 ("tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead
of 0").

Let's apply the same fix to mptcp_do_fastclose().

[0]:
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6068 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x824/0x1320 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3336
Code: ff ff ff 44 89 f1 d3 e0 89 c1 f7 d1 41 01 cc 41 21 c4 e9 a9 00 00 00 e8 ca 49 01 f8 e9 9c 00 00 00 e8 c0 49 01 f8 44 89 e0 99 <f7> 7c 24 1c 41 29 d4 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e9 80 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003017640 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807b469e40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003017730 R08: ffff888033268143 R09: 1ffff1100664d028
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100664d029 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055557faa0500(0000) GS:ffff888126135000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f64a1912ff8 CR3: 0000000072122000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 tcp_select_window net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:281 [inline]
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xbc7/0x3aa0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1568
 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1649 [inline]
 tcp_send_active_reset+0x2d1/0x5b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3836
 mptcp_do_fastclose+0x27e/0x380 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2793
 mptcp_disconnect+0x238/0x710 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3253
 mptcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x2f8/0x580 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1776
 mptcp_sendmsg+0x1774/0x1980 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1855
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x270 net/socket.c:742
 __sys_sendto+0x3bd/0x520 net/socket.c:2244
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2251 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2247 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2247
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f66e998f749
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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffff9acedb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f66e9be5fa0 RCX: 00007f66e998f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffff9acee10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R14: 00007f66e9be5fa0 R15: 0000000000000006
 </TASK>

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68291?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-68291?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-68291 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68291 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68291 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-68291 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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-2025-68291 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. 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-2025-68291/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68291/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68291
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68291
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-68291

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68291/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.