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CVE-2025-38461

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload.

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 5.5 before 5.10.240
from 5.11 before 5.15.189
from 5.16 before 6.1.146
from 6.2 before 6.6.99
from 6.7 before 6.12.39
from 6.13 before 6.15.7
DebianDebian Linux
Version 11.0

Weakness classification

CWE-367

References