CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-21640

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's SCTP subsystem, sysctl cookie_hmac_alg uses current->nsproxy to obtain the net structure, which can lead to null-ptr-deref during process exit, causing system crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can trigger a system crash by invoking sysctl during process exit, leading to loss of availability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that obtains the net structure from table->data using container_of() instead of current->nsproxy.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: 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.sctp_hmac_alg' is used.

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