PT-2025-16924 · Google · Kernel

Published 2025-04-17 · Updated 2025-07-11 · CVE-2025-1290

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:**

ChromeOS Kernel versions prior to 6.1

ChromeOS Kernel version 5.4

**Description:**

A race condition Use-After-Free vulnerability exists in the `virtio transport space update` function. Concurrent allocation and freeing of the `virtio vsock sock` structure during an AF VSOCK connect syscall can occur before a worker thread accesses it, resulting in a dangling pointer and potential kernel code execution.

**Recommendations:**

ChromeOS Kernel versions prior to 6.1: Update the Kernel to version 6.1 or later.

ChromeOS Kernel version 5.4: Update the Kernel to a newer version.

Exploit

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1290

Affected Products

Kernel

References · 11

• 🔥 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/301886931 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1290 · Security Note
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/b/301886931 · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/23208 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/AGI2JPN/status/1943696560358858946 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1912722247980134617 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cybercronai/status/1912831094337986742 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1914635352976826372 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvetracker/21829 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/vuldb/status/1912712660845838777 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/128534 · Telegram Post