CVE-2025-23142

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: detect and prevent references to a freed transport in sendmsg sctp_sendmsg() re-uses associations and transports when possible by doing a lookup based on the socket endpoint and the message destination address, and then sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() sets the selected transport in all the message chunks to be sent. There's a possible race condition if another thread triggers the removal of that selected transport, for instance, by explicitly unbinding an address with setsockopt(SCTP_SOCKOPT_BINDX_REM), after the chunks have been set up and before the message is sent. This can happen if the send buffer is full, during the period when the sender thread temporarily releases the socket lock in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf(). This causes the access to the transport data in sctp_outq_select_transport(), when the association outqueue is flushed, to result in a use-after-free read. This change avoids this scenario by having sctp_transport_free() signal the freeing of the transport, tagging it as "dead". In order to do this, the patch restores the "dead" bit in struct sctp_transport, which was removed in commit 47faa1e4c50e ("sctp: remove the dead field of sctp_transport"). Then, in the scenario where the sender thread has released the socket lock in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf(), the bit is checked again after re-acquiring the socket lock to detect the deletion. This is done while holding a reference to the transport to prevent it from being freed in the process. If the transport was deleted while the socket lock was relinquished, sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() will return -EAGAIN to let userspace retry the send. The bug was found by a private syzbot instance (see the error report [1] and the C reproducer that triggers it [2]).
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

05 Nov 2025, 22:04

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.8
CWE CWE-416
First Time Debian
Debian debian Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Linux
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References
  • () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
  • () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f7df4899299ce4662e5f95badb9dbc57cc37fa5 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f7df4899299ce4662e5f95badb9dbc57cc37fa5 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5068b7e0ae0a54f6cfd03a2f80977da657f1ee - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5068b7e0ae0a54f6cfd03a2f80977da657f1ee - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3257386be6a7eb8a8bfc9cbfb746df4eb4fc70e8 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3257386be6a7eb8a8bfc9cbfb746df4eb4fc70e8 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/547762250220325d350d0917a7231480e0f4142b - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/547762250220325d350d0917a7231480e0f4142b - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc83bdf5f5b8010d1ca5a4555537e62413ab4e2 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc83bdf5f5b8010d1ca5a4555537e62413ab4e2 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a63f4fb0efb4e69efd990cbb740a848679ec4b0 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a63f4fb0efb4e69efd990cbb740a848679ec4b0 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e7c37fadb3be1fc33073fcf10aa96d166caa697 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e7c37fadb3be1fc33073fcf10aa96d166caa697 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6fefcb71d246baaf3bacdad1af7ff50ebcfe652 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6fefcb71d246baaf3bacdad1af7ff50ebcfe652 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1a69a940de58b16e8249dff26f74c8cc59b32be - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1a69a940de58b16e8249dff26f74c8cc59b32be - Patch

Information

Published : 2025-05-01 13:15

Updated : 2025-11-05 22:04


NVD link : CVE-2025-23142

Mitre link : CVE-2025-23142

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-23142


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-416

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