cve/published/2025/CVE-2025-21670.json

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