cve/2025/CVE-2025-38461.md

### [CVE-2025-38461](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-38461)
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### Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOUTransport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transportfrom 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: fffffbfff8056000Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASANRIP: 0010:vsock_assign_transport+0x366/0x600Call 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

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/w4zu/Debian_security