{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71088 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-71088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-71088 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-71088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71088 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71088/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71088/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-71088","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71088/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-71088","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-71088","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71088","GHSA-7xjf-vxwf-j6g3","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-71088","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-71088","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-71088","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71088"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem can cause a kernel warning and potential denial of service during simultaneous connections.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fallback earlier on simult connection\n\nSyzkaller reports a simult-connect race leading to inconsistent fallback\nstatus:\n\n  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 33 at net/mptcp/subflow.c:1515 subflow_data_ready+0x40b/0x7c0 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1515\n  Modules linked in:\n  CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 33 Comm: ksoftirqd/3 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n  RIP: 0010:subflow_data_ready+0x40b/0x7c0 net/mptcp/subflow.c:1515\n  Code: 89 ee e8 78 61 3c f6 40 84 ed 75 21 e8 8e 66 3c f6 44 89 fe bf 07 00 00 00 e8 c1 61 3c f6 41 83 ff 07 74 09 e8 76 66 3c f6 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 90 e8 6d 66 3c f6 48 89 df e8 e5 ad ff ff 31 ff 89 c5 89 c6\n  RSP: 0018:ffffc900006cf338 EFLAGS: 00010246\n  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888031acd100 RCX: ffffffff8b7f2abf\n  RDX: ffff88801e6ea440 RSI: ffffffff8b7f2aca RDI: 0000000000000005\n  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000007\n  R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000002c10 R12: ffff88802ba69900\n  R13: 1ffff920000d9e67 R14: ffff888046f81800 R15: 0000000000000004\n  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880d69bc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 0000560fc0ca1670 CR3: 0000000032c3a000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   tcp_data_queue+0x13b0/0x4f90 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5197\n   tcp_rcv_state_process+0xfdf/0x4ec0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6922\n   tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x492/0x1740 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1672\n   tcp_v6_rcv+0x2976/0x41e0 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1918\n   ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x188/0x1520 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438\n   ip6_input_finish+0x1e4/0x4b0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:489\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:312 [inline]\n   ip6_input+0x105/0x2f0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:500\n   dst_input include/net/dst.h:471 [inline]\n   ip6_rcv_finish net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:79 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:312 [inline]\n   ipv6_rcv+0x264/0x650 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:311\n   __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x12d/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:5979\n   __netif_receive_skb+0x1d/0x160 net/core/dev.c:6092\n   process_backlog+0x442/0x15e0 net/core/dev.c:6444\n   __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xba/0x550 net/core/dev.c:7494\n   napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7557 [inline]\n   net_rx_action+0xa9f/0xfe0 net/core/dev.c:7684\n   handle_softirqs+0x216/0x8e0 kernel/softirq.c:579\n   run_ksoftirqd kernel/softirq.c:968 [inline]\n   run_ksoftirqd+0x3a/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:960\n   smpboot_thread_fn+0x3f7/0xae0 kernel/smpboot.c:160\n   kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463\n   ret_from_fork+0x5d7/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe TCP subflow can process the simult-connect syn-ack packet after\ntransitioning to TCP_FIN1 state, bypassing the MPTCP fallback check,\nas the sk_state_change() callback is not invoked for * -\u003e FIN_WAIT1\ntransitions.\n\nThat will move the msk socket to an inconsistent status and the next\nincoming data will hit the reported splat.\n\nClose the race moving the simult-fallback check at the earliest possible\nstage - that is at syn-ack generation time.\n\nAbout the fixes tags: [2] was supposed to also fix this issue introduced\nby [3]. [1] is required as a dependence: it was not explicitly marked as\na fix, but it is one and it has already been backported before [3]. In\nother words, this commit should be backported up to [3], including [2]\nand [1] if that's not already there.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mptcp: fallback earlier on simult connection","id":"CVE-2025-71088","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set","id":"CVE-2025-71089"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"iavf: fix off-by-one issues in iavf_config_rss_reg()","id":"CVE-2025-71087"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-01-13","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem can cause a kernel warning and potential denial of service during simultaneous connections.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71088/"}