cve/published/2025/CVE-2025-21635.json

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               "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: sysctl: rds_tcp_{rcv,snd}buf: avoid using current->nsproxy\n\nAs mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net'\nstructure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:\n\n- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only\n  from the opener's netns.\n\n- current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops'\n  (null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by\n  syzbot [1] using acct(2).\n\nThe per-netns structure can be obtained from the table->data using\ncontainer_of(), then the 'net' one can be retrieved from the listen\nsocket (if available)."
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