CVE-2025-21639

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

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Jan 19, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
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
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before c8d179f3b1c1d60bf4484f50aa67b4c70f91bff9Affected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before 246428bfb9e7db15c5cd08e1d0eca41b65af2b06Affected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before 0f78f09466744589e420935e646ae78212a38290Affected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before 4059507e34aa5fe0fa9fd5b2b5f0c8b26ab2d482Affected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before dc9d0e3cfd16f66fbf0862857c6b391c8613ca9fAffected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before c87f1f6ade56c711f8736901e330685b453e420eAffected
  • 4f3fdf3bc59cafd14c3bc2c2369efad34c7aa8b5 to before 9fc17b76fc70763780aa78b38fcf4742384044a5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.13Affected
  • before 3.13Not affected
  • 5.4.290 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.234 through 5.10.*Not 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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