5.5
Medium
CVE-2025-21666 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: prevent null-ptr-deref in…
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 and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Linux 6.13 | earliest → < 6.13 | 6.13 |
| Linux 6.12 | earliest → < 6.12.11 | 6.12.11 |
| Linux 6.6 | earliest → < 6.6.74 | 6.6.74 |
| Linux 6.1 | earliest → < 6.1.127 | 6.1.127 |
| Linux 5.15 | earliest → < 5.15.177 | 5.15.177 |
| Linux 5.10 | earliest → < 5.10.234 | 5.10.234 |
| Linux | 5.5 | No fix stated |
| SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem | Versions not published |
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