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CVE-2025-21640

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CVE-2025-21640

Published: Jan 19, 2025

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b - < 5599b212d2f4466e1832a94e9932684aaa364587
affected
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b - < 03ca51faba2b017bf6c90e139434c4117d0afcdc
affected
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b - < 86ddf8118123cb58a0fb8724cad6979c4069065b
affected
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b - < 3cd0659deb9c03535fd61839e91d4d4d3e51ac71
affected
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b - < ad673e514b2793b8d5902f6ba6ab7e890dea23d5

+2 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.8
unaffected
0 - < 3.8
unaffected
5.4.292 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.234 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.177 - <= 5.15.*

+4 more versions

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