CVE-2025-21666NULL 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
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.55.15.177+4
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.234-1+3
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-135.146+1
CVEListV5linux/linuxc0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543adaeac89cdb03d30028186f5ff7dc26ec8fa843e7+6
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.128-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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📋Vendor Advisories

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