CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38461

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-25 Modified 2026-07-30 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-07-25
Last modified
2026-07-30
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-367

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transport from becoming a stale pointer. This also takes care of an insecure call in vsock_use_local_transport(); add a lockdep assert. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff8056000 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN RIP: 0010:vsock_assign_transport+0x366/0x600 Call Trace: vsock_connect+0x59c/0xc40 __sys_connect+0xe8/0x100 __x64_sys_connect+0x6e/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.240) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.189) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.146) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.99) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.39) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.7) • linux linux kernel 6.16 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References