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Debian: CVE-2025-38403: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 28, 2025
Added
Jul 28, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
Title
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