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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:31:13 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: CVE-2024-35840: mptcp: use OPTION_MPTCP_MPJ_SYNACK in
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References: <2024051756-CVE-2024-35840-99fa@gregkh>
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 01:28:05PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 06-06-24 10:03:59, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > what is the actual security threat here? As far as I can see, the
> > problem that the commit requested here addresses seems to be rather
> > functional, rather than responding to an unexpected packet options with
> > a reset, we actually establish a connection with some garbage parameters
> > (likely unpredictable). Which is unfortunate but I do not see any
> > security implications.
> 
> Does the silence mean that there are no actual security implications
> here?

Sorry, no, I was traveling and am still trying to catch up with the
pending queue.  Should get to it later today or tomorrow, sorry for the
delay.

greg k-h