CVE-2025-38461

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains a time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the vsock transport mechanism. A race condition can occur between transport assignment and module unloading, potentially leading to a stale pointer. This issue also involves an insecure call within the vsock use local transport() function. A kernel oops may occur, specifically a page fault, as indicated by the bug report.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.