vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-21666: kernel: vsock: prevent null-ptr-deref in vsock_*[has_data|has_space] (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 31, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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