CVE-2025-21670

vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Jan 31, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f to before 58e586c30d0b6f5dc0174a41026f2b0a48c9aab6Affected
  • 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f to before 6771e1279dadf1d92a72e1465134257d9e6f2459Affected
  • 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f to before f6abafcd32f9cfc4b1a2f820ecea70773e26d423Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.74 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.11 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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