VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-21666

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-01-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-476
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-476

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