CVE-2025-21641

mptcp: sysctl: blackhole timeout: avoid using current->nsproxy

Medium · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

mptcp: sysctl: blackhole timeout: avoid using current->nsproxy

As mentioned in the previous commit, 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 'pernet' structure can be obtained from the table->data using

container_of().

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
0.00176 · 6.7th percentile
Published
2025-01-19T10:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 10:17Z
    mptcp: sysctl: blackhole timeout: avoid using current->nsproxy
    cvelistv5