Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: 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, but that would
increase the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be
retrieved from 'net' structure.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21638

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 12.58% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-17 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b67030d39f2b00f94ac1f0af11ba6657589e4d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ec30c54f339c640aa7e49d7e9f7bbed6bd42bf6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c184bc621e3cef03ac9ba81a50dda2dae6a21d36
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15649fd5415eda664ef35780c2013adeb5d9c695

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