MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-97523 (CVSS 7.5)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 23/100
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: close race between scheduler and state change The mptcp scheduler may race with subflow sockets state change: data transmission on the selected socket may fail and a later release could try to use mss_now reset to 0 for a divide operation. Address the issue by explicitly checking for the critical scenario.
Technical details
CVSS
7.5
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High
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