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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0024 14.9 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux b14878ccb7fac0242db82720b784ab62c467c0dc – — Linux 3.15 – 5.4.292
TIMELINE Dec 29 Reserved by Linux Jan 19 Published (CNA: Linux) Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-21638 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD).
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.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| December 29, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| January 19, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-21638 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2025-21638 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
Weaknesses: CWE-476
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