CVE-2025-21638

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c184bc621e3cef03ac9ba81a50dda2dae6a21d36

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd2a2939423566c654545fa3e96a656662a0af9e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ec30c54f339c640aa7e49d7e9f7bbed6bd42bf6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b67030d39f2b00f94ac1f0af11ba6657589e4d3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15649fd5415eda664ef35780c2013adeb5d9c695

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-19

Updated: 2025-01-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium