Bug 2360275 (CVE-2025-22062)

Summary: CVE-2025-22062 kernel: sctp: add mutual exclusion in proc_sctp_do_udp_port()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:05:53 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: add mutual exclusion in proc_sctp_do_udp_port()

We must serialize calls to sctp_udp_sock_stop() and sctp_udp_sock_start()
or risk a crash as syzbot reported:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6551 Comm: syz.1.44 Not tainted 6.14.0-syzkaller-g7f2ff7b62617 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
 RIP: 0010:kernel_sock_shutdown+0x47/0x70 net/socket.c:3653
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  udp_tunnel_sock_release+0x68/0x80 net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:181
  sctp_udp_sock_stop+0x71/0x160 net/sctp/protocol.c:930
  proc_sctp_do_udp_port+0x264/0x450 net/sctp/sysctl.c:553
  proc_sys_call_handler+0x3d0/0x5b0 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:601
  iter_file_splice_write+0x91c/0x1150 fs/splice.c:738
  do_splice_from fs/splice.c:935 [inline]
  direct_splice_actor+0x18f/0x6c0 fs/splice.c:1158
  splice_direct_to_actor+0x342/0xa30 fs/splice.c:1102
  do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1201 [inline]
  do_splice_direct+0x174/0x240 fs/splice.c:1227
  do_sendfile+0xafd/0xe50 fs/read_write.c:1368
  __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1429 [inline]
  __se_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1415 [inline]
  __x64_sys_sendfile64+0x1d8/0x220 fs/read_write.c:1415
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 07:47:39 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041607-CVE-2025-22062-8912@gregkh/T