CVE-2025-38403

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

25/07/2025

Last modified:

23/12/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.9 (including)	5.4.296 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.240 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.187 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.144 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.97 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.37 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-38403

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools