CVE-2025-21640
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: 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.sctp_hmac_alg' is
used.
sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: 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.sctp_hmac_alg' is
used.
Vendor
Product
CWE
Yayın Tarihi
2025-01-19 11:15:09
Güncelleme
2025-11-03 21:19:00
Source Identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
KEV Date Added
-
Kategoriler
Referanslar
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03ca51faba2b017bf6c90e139434c4117d0afcdc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cd0659deb9c03535fd61839e91d4d4d3e51ac71
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5599b212d2f4466e1832a94e9932684aaa364587
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86ddf8118123cb58a0fb8724cad6979c4069065b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad673e514b2793b8d5902f6ba6ab7e890dea23d5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea62dd1383913b5999f3d16ae99d411f41b528d4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0bb3935470684306e4e04793a20ac4c4b08de0b
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html