A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.124/6.6.71/6.12.9/6.13-rc6 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component sysctl. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-21637. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.