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CVE-2025-21640

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current->nsproxy

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.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgit5599b212d2f4466e1832a94e9932684aaa364587UnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgit03ca51faba2b017bf6c90e139434c4117d0afcdcUnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgit86ddf8118123cb58a0fb8724cad6979c4069065bUnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgit3cd0659deb9c03535fd61839e91d4d4d3e51ac71UnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgitad673e514b2793b8d5902f6ba6ab7e890dea23d5UnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgitf0bb3935470684306e4e04793a20ac4c4b08de0bUnavailableNone listed
3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729baffectedgitea62dd1383913b5999f3d16ae99d411f41b528d4UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.8affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.8UnavailableNone listed
5.4.292unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.234unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.177unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.125unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.72unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.10unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.13unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed