CVE-2025-21640
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | 5599b212d2f4466e1832a94e9932684aaa364587 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | 03ca51faba2b017bf6c90e139434c4117d0afcdc | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | 86ddf8118123cb58a0fb8724cad6979c4069065b | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | 3cd0659deb9c03535fd61839e91d4d4d3e51ac71 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | ad673e514b2793b8d5902f6ba6ab7e890dea23d5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | f0bb3935470684306e4e04793a20ac4c4b08de0b | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3c68198e75111a905ac2412be12bf7b29099729b | affected | git | ea62dd1383913b5999f3d16ae99d411f41b528d4 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 3.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.292 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.234 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.177 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.125 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.72 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.10 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.13 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |