CVE-2025-21638CWE-476

CVE-2025-21638

High · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: 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 'net' structure can be obtained from the table->data using

container_of().

Note that table->data could also be used directly, but that would

increase the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be

retrieved from 'net' structure.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00237 · 13.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-01-19T16:15Z
Affected products (14)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.10.41, < 3.113.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.12.20, < 3.133.13
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.14.5, < 5.4.2905.4.290
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2345.10.234
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1775.15.177
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1256.1.125
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.726.6.72
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.106.12.10
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References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 10:17Z
    sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: avoid using current->nsproxy
    cvelistv5