CVE-2025-21637

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.177linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.125linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.72linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.11
Linux/Linux 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 - 0a0966312ac3eedd7f5f2a766ed4702df39a9a65
Linux/Linux 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 - 55627918febdf9d71107a1e68d1528dc591c9a15
Linux/Linux 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 - 5b77d73f3be5102720fb685b9e6900e3500e1096
Linux/Linux 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 - c10377bbc1972d858eaf0ab366a311b39f8ef1b6
Linux/Linux 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 - e919197fb8616331f5dc81e4c3cc3d12769cb725
... and 8 more
Published Jan 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026