CVE-2025-21638 (GCVE-0-2025-21638)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-19 10:17
Modified
2025-05-04 13:06
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc
Version: b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc
Version: b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc
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Version: b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc
Version: b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc
Version: e5eae4a0511241959498b180fa0df0d4f1b11b9c
Version: 88830f227a1f96e44d82ddfcb0cc81d517ec6dd8
Version: 3938b0336a93fa5faa242dc9e5823ac69df9e066
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