FKIE_CVE-2025-38403
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-25 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:16
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.16 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.16 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.16 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.16 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 11.0 |
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