CVE-2025-38403

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Information Exposure via Uninitialized Data in VMCI Transport Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the structure.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.9.0 - 5.4.296linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.187linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.144linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.240linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.97linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
Linux/Linux < 3.9
Linux/Linux 3.9
... and 18 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026