Security Advisory

CVE-2025-21637

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-01-19 10:17:55
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:03:31
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: sysctl: udp_port: 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 readers/writers netns vs only from the openers 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.