Vulnerability CVE-2024-45009
Published: 2024-09-11

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

mptcp: pm: only decrement add_addr_accepted for MPJ req

Adding the following warning ...

WARN_ON_ONCE(msk->pm.add_addr_accepted == 0)

... before decrementing the add_addr_accepted counter helped to find a
bug when running the "remove single subflow" subtest from the
mptcp_join.sh selftest.

Removing a 'subflow' endpoint will first trigger a RM_ADDR, then the
subflow closure. Before this patch, and upon the reception of the
RM_ADDR, the other peer will then try to decrement this
add_addr_accepted. That's not correct because the attached subflows have
not been created upon the reception of an ADD_ADDR.

A way to solve that is to decrement the counter only if the attached
subflow was an MP_JOIN to a remote id that was not 0, and initiated by
the host receiving the RM_ADDR.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85b866e4c4e63a1d7afb58f1e24273caad03d0b7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20bf2c96d7ffd171299b32f562f70e5bf5dc608
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2060f1efab370b496c4903b840844ecaff324c3c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c1f721375989579e46741f59523e39ec9b2a9bd
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