CVE-2025-21666

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 should continue to run in a nearly consistent state and have a warning that allows us to debug future problems.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.177linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.127linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.234linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.74linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.11linux
Linux/Linux < 5.5
Linux/Linux 5.10.234 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.177 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.5
Linux/Linux 6.1.127 - 6.1.*
... and 11 more
Published Jan 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026