VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2025-21666

CVE-2025-21666

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.

Affected products

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  • Linux/Linuxv5
    Range: 5.5

Patches

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