CVE-2025-38461

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.10.240 - TOCTOU Race Condition

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-367
Status published
Products (9)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.189linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.146linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.240linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.7linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.99linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.39linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.5 - 5.10.240
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026