CVE-2025-21635CWE-476

CVE-2025-21635

Medium · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rds: sysctl: rds_tcp_{rcv,snd}buf: avoid using current->nsproxy

As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net'

structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:

- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only

from the opener's netns.

- current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops'

(null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by

syzbot [1] using acct(2).

The per-netns structure can be obtained from the table->data using

container_of(), then the 'net' one can be retrieved from the listen

socket (if available).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00210 · 10.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-01-19T16:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.6, < 6.12.106.12.10
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 10:17Z
    rds: sysctl: rds_tcp_{rcv,snd}buf: avoid using current->nsproxy
    cvelistv5