CVE-2025-21637

sctp: sysctl: udp_port: avoid using current->nsproxy

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Jan 19, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

sctp: sysctl: udp_port: 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 0a0966312ac3eedd7f5f2a766ed4702df39a9a65Affected
  • 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before e919197fb8616331f5dc81e4c3cc3d12769cb725Affected
  • 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 55627918febdf9d71107a1e68d1528dc591c9a15Affected
  • 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 5b77d73f3be5102720fb685b9e6900e3500e1096Affected
  • 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before c10377bbc1972d858eaf0ab366a311b39f8ef1b6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not affected
  • 5.15.177 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.125 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.72 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.10 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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