CVE-2025-21639

sctp: sysctl: rto_min/max: avoid using current->nsproxy

Medium · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sctp: sysctl: rto_min/max: 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, as this is the only

member needed from the 'net' structure, but that would increase the size

of this fix, to use '*data' everywhere 'net->sctp.rto_min/max' is used.

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
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2025-01-19T10:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 10:17Z
    sctp: sysctl: rto_min/max: avoid using current->nsproxy
    cvelistv5