CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21636
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: sysctl: plpmtud_probe_interval: 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.probe_interval' is
used.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.125)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.72)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dc5da6c4178f3e4b95c631418f72de9f86c0449 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/284a221f8fa503628432c7bb5108277c688c6ffa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44ee8635922b6eb940faddb961a8347c6857d722 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6259d2484d0ceff42245d1f09cc8cb6ee72d847a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf8c60074e81ed2ac2d35130917175a3949c917 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org