CVE-2025-21670

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21670
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21670.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21670
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-01-31T11:25:33.874Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:40:42.085106Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned
Details

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 vsockbpfrecvmsg(), especially for connected sockets (stream/seqpacket) as we already do in __vsockconnectiblerecvmsg().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21670.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f
Fixed
58e586c30d0b6f5dc0174a41026f2b0a48c9aab6
Fixed
6771e1279dadf1d92a72e1465134257d9e6f2459
Fixed
f6abafcd32f9cfc4b1a2f820ecea70773e26d423

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21670.json"