High · published January 19, 2025
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.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 3.10.41, < 3.11 | 3.11 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 3.12.20, < 3.13 | 3.13 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 3.14.5, < 5.4.290 | 5.4.290 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.234 | 5.10.234 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.177 | 5.15.177 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.125 | 6.1.125 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.72 | 6.6.72 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.10 | 6.12.10 |
| linux/linux_kernel | all versions | — |
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