# 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-2025-21640"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-19T10:17:57.593Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:51.964Z"
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-2025-21640"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21640.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21640"
title: "sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current-\u003ensproxy"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: 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, as this is the only\nmember needed from the 'net' structure, but that would increase the size\nof this fix, to use '*data' everywhere 'net-\u003esctp.sctp_hmac_alg' is\nused."
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