cve/2025/CVE-2025-21669.md
2025-09-29 21:09:30 +02:00

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CVE-2025-21669

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changesIf the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport,we must discard any packets received because they are not expectedand 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 secondconnect() failed, we can find vsk->transport at NULL, leading to aNULL pointer dereference.

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