CVE-2025-38461: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transport from becoming a stale pointer. This also takes care of an insecure call in vsock_use_local_transport(); add a lockdep assert. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff8056000 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN RIP: 0010:vsock_assign_transport+0x366/0x600 Call Trace: vsock_connect+0x59c/0xc40 __sys_connect+0xe8/0x100 __x64_sys_connect+0x6e/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.5, before 5.10.240 (fixed in 5.10.240); from 5.11, before 5.15.189 (fixed in 5.15.189); from 5.16, before 6.1.146 (fixed in 6.1.146); from 6.2, before 6.6.99 (fixed in 6.6.99); from 6.7, before 6.12.39 (fixed in 6.12.39); from 6.13, before 6.15.7 (fixed in 6.15.7); …

Published 2025-07-25. Last modified 2026-07-30.