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CVE-2025-21670

MEDIUM 5.5

vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned Some of the core functions can only be called if the transport has been assigned. As Michal reported, a socket might have the transport at NULL, for example after a failed connect(), causing the following trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000a0 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 12faf8067 P4D 12faf8067 PUD 113670067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 1198 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ RIP: 0010:vsock_connectible_has_data+0x1f/0x40 Call Trace: vsock_bpf_recvmsg+0xca/0x5e0 sock_recvmsg+0xb9/0xc0 __sys_recvfrom+0xb3/0x130 __x64_sys_recvfrom+0x20/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e So we need to check the `vsk->transport` in vsock_bpf_recvmsg(), especially for connected sockets (stream/seqpacket) as we already do in __vsock_connectible_recvmsg().

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Product linux
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Published Jan 31, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f < 58e586c30d0b6f5dc0174a41026f2b0a48c9aab6 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f < 6771e1279dadf1d92a72e1465134257d9e6f2459 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f < f6abafcd32f9cfc4b1a2f820ecea70773e26d423
Linux / Linux
6.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e586c30d0b6f5dc0174a41026f2b0a48c9aab6 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6771e1279dadf1d92a72e1465134257d9e6f2459 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6abafcd32f9cfc4b1a2f820ecea70773e26d423