sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current->nsproxy
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03ca51faba2b017bf6c90e139434c4117d0afcdchttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cd0659deb9c03535fd61839e91d4d4d3e51ac71https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5599b212d2f4466e1832a94e9932684aaa364587https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86ddf8118123cb58a0fb8724cad6979c4069065bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad673e514b2793b8d5902f6ba6ab7e890dea23d5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea62dd1383913b5999f3d16ae99d411f41b528d4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0bb3935470684306e4e04793a20ac4c4b08de0bhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html