CVE-2025-38611
vmci: Prevent the dispatching of uninitialized payloads
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Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
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Descriptions
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.
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.
CVSS Scores
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Timeline
- 2025-04-16 CVE Reserved
- 2025-08-19 CVE Published
- 2025-08-19 CVE Updated
- 2025-08-20 EPSS Updated
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CWE
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References (7)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d6692cd8fb2a900edba5e5983be4478756ef6f | Vuln. Introduced |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.1.148 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.1.148" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.6.102 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.6.102" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.12.42 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.12.42" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.15.10 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.15.10" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.16.1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.16.1" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 3.9 < 6.17-rc1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.9 < 6.17-rc1" | en |
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