CVE-2025-21641

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

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Jan 19, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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().

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
  • 27069e7cb3d1cea9377069266acf19b9cc5ad0ae to before 4c74fbdc5ab95b13945be01e6065940b68222db7Affected
  • 27069e7cb3d1cea9377069266acf19b9cc5ad0ae to before 92cf7a51bdae24a32c592adcdd59a773ae149289Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.10 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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