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CVE-2025-21669

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-01-31 Modified: 2026-07-30

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport, we must discard any packets received because they are not expected and would cause issues when we access vsk->transport. A possible scenario is described by Hyunwoo Kim in the attached link, where after a first connect() interrupted by a signal, and a second connect() failed, we can find `vsk->transport` at NULL, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476, CWE-476

References