CVE-2025-21639

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21639
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https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21639.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21639
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Published
2025-01-19T11:15:09Z
Modified
2025-10-01T20:18:15Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

sctp: sysctl: rto_min/max: 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.rto_min/max' is used.

References

Affected packages