CVE-2025-21666 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV5.9
EPSS
0.0%
top 91.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 31
Latest updateJul 17
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…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a — daeac89cdb03d30028186f5ff7dc26ec8fa843e7+6