Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 19, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-21641
CVE-2025-21641
Description
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().
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References
2- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c74fbdc5ab95b13945be01e6065940b68222db7nvdMailing ListPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/92cf7a51bdae24a32c592adcdd59a773ae149289nvdMailing ListPatch
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