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CVE-2025-38461

vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transport from 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: fffffbfff8056000 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN RIP: 0010:vsock_assign_transport+0x366/0x600 Call 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

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 8667e8d0eb46bc54fdae30ba2f4786407d3d88eb; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 36a439049b34cca0b3661276049b84a1f76cc21a; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 9ce53e744f18e73059d3124070e960f3aa9902bf; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 9d24bb6780282b0255b9929abe5e8f98007e2c6e; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before ae2c712ba39c7007de63cb0c75b51ce1caaf1da5; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 7b73bddf54777fb62d4d8c7729d0affe6df04477; affected c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a before 687aa0c5581b8d4aa87fd92973e4ee576b550cdf
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.5; unaffected 0 before 5.5; unaffected 5.10.240 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.189 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.146 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.99 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.39 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.7 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

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