# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21637"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-19T10:17:55.321Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:53:17.199Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21637"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21637.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21637"
title: "sctp: sysctl: udp_port: avoid using current-\u003ensproxy"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: sysctl: udp_port: avoid using current-\u003ensproxy\n\nAs mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net'\nstructure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:\n\n- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only\n  from the opener's netns.\n\n- current-\u003ensproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops'\n  (null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by\n  syzbot [1] using acct(2).\n\nThe 'net' structure can be obtained from the table-\u003edata using\ncontainer_of().\n\nNote that table-\u003edata could also be used directly, but that would\nincrease the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be\nretrieved from 'net' structure."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a0966312ac3eedd7f5f2a766ed4702df39a9a65"},{"version":"046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e919197fb8616331f5dc81e4c3cc3d12769cb725"},{"version":"046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55627918febdf9d71107a1e68d1528dc591c9a15"},{"version":"046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b77d73f3be5102720fb685b9e6900e3500e1096"},{"version":"046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c10377bbc1972d858eaf0ab366a311b39f8ef1b6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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