CVE-2025-21670

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.4-6.6.73, 6.7-6.12.10 - NULL Pointer Dereference in vsock/bpf

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned Some of the core functions can only be called if the transport has been assigned. As Michal reported, a socket might have the transport at NULL, for example after a failed connect(), causing the following trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000a0 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 12faf8067 P4D 12faf8067 PUD 113670067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 1198 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ RIP: 0010:vsock_connectible_has_data+0x1f/0x40 Call Trace: vsock_bpf_recvmsg+0xca/0x5e0 sock_recvmsg+0xb9/0xc0 __sys_recvfrom+0xb3/0x130 __x64_sys_recvfrom+0x20/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e So we need to check the `vsk->transport` in vsock_bpf_recvmsg(), especially for connected sockets (stream/seqpacket) as we already do in __vsock_connectible_recvmsg().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.9%
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 (12)
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.6.74linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.11linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.12.11 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.6.74 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f - 58e586c30d0b6f5dc0174a41026f2b0a48c9aab6
Linux/Linux 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f - 6771e1279dadf1d92a72e1465134257d9e6f2459
Linux/Linux 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f - f6abafcd32f9cfc4b1a2f820ecea70773e26d423
... and 2 more
Published Jan 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026