5.5

CVE-2025-21638

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

sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: 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.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.10.41 < 3.11
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.12.20 < 3.13
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.14.5 < 5.4.290
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.234
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.177
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.125
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.72
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc6
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.06% 0.19
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.