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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2025-21638

Disclosure Date: January 19, 2025
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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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

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