CVE-2025-21641

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21641
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21641.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21641
Downstream
Published
2025-01-19T11:15:09Z
Modified
2025-10-01T20:18:16Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages