FKIE_CVE-2025-21641

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-19 11:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:43
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: sysctl: blackhole timeout: avoid using current->nsproxy As mentioned in the previous commit, 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 'pernet' structure can be obtained from the table->data using container_of().
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c74fbdc5ab95b13945be01e6065940b68222db7Mailing List, Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92cf7a51bdae24a32c592adcdd59a773ae149289Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.13
linux linux_kernel 6.13
linux linux_kernel 6.13
linux linux_kernel 6.13
linux linux_kernel 6.13
linux linux_kernel 6.13
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