CVE-2025-38611
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: Prevent the dispatching of uninitialized payloads The reproducer executes the host's unlocked_ioctl call in two different tasks. When init_context fails, the struct vmci_event_ctx is not fully initialized when executing vmci_datagram_dispatch() to send events to all vm contexts. This affects the datagram taken from the datagram queue of its context by another task, because the datagram payload is not initialized according to the size payload_size, which causes the kernel data to leak to the user space. Before dispatching the datagram, and before setting the payload content, explicitly set the payload content to 0 to avoid data leakage caused by incomplete payload initialization.
EPSS 0.04% · 12.4th percentile
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Timeline
- Aug 19, 2025 CVE Published
- Aug 20, 2025 EPSS Score
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- Aug 28, 2025 CVE Updated
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38611 advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c86366ce37f398e20fa09e7e9dc8788fbf6cf0c url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6696a46f4ebdc7314ff23a2fb0e93a95da2c45ee url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7624fe66a0832eb6fe4e465fcdd4f9104fb9b339 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f8f8654e55cf9327cc63746595085a041699dc url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94112b0d443e0b6b5bb17854f97c1498064cc9ed url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a85dc83857497fa1f68a9b23e7213949d4cb51ea url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b097d921efb5bb150066365287ff046b8c8b29f5 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfb4cf9fb97e4063f0aa62e9e398025fb6625031 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfd6b211fe8aae79acbedd19e8d5bea5d062a41b url