CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21666
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock: prevent null-ptr-deref in vsock_*[has_data|has_space]
Recent reports have shown how we sometimes call vsock_*_has_data()
when a vsock socket has been de-assigned from a transport (see attached
links), but we shouldn't.
Previous commits should have solved the real problems, but we may have
more in the future, so to avoid null-ptr-deref, we can return 0
(no space, no data available) but with a warning.
This way the code should continue to run in a nearly consistent state
and have a warning that allows us to debug future problems.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.15.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.127)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.74)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.11)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91751e248256efc111e52e15115840c35d85abaf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e5fed46ccd2c34c5fa5a9c8825ce4823fdc853e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b52e50dd4fabd12944172bd486a4f4853b7f74dd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc9c49341f9728c31fe248c5fbba32d2e81a092b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c23d1d4f8efefb72258e9cedce29de10d057f8ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/daeac89cdb03d30028186f5ff7dc26ec8fa843e7 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html cert-portal.siemens.com