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CVE-2025-38403 (GCVE-0-2025-38403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 13:08 – Updated: 2026-06-11 18:44
VLAI
Title
vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the structure.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-10 20:40 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 19c2cc01ff9a8031398a802676ffb0f4692dd95d (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 1c1bcb0e78230f533b4103e8cf271d17c3f469f0 (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 2d44723a091bc853272e1a51a488a3d22b80be5e (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 0a01021317375b8d1895152f544421ce49299eb1 (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 94d0c326cb3ee6b0f8bd00e209550b93fcc5c839 (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 75705b44e0b9aaa74f4c163d93d388bcba9e386a (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < e9a673153d578fd439919a24e99851b2f87ecbce (git)
Affected: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 , < 223e2288f4b8c262a864e2c03964ffac91744cd5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.296 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.240 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.187 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.144 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.97 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.37 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.6 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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