PT-2025-30875 · Linux+9 · Linux Kernel+9

Published 2025-01-01 · Updated 2026-05-22 · CVE-2025-38461

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:C

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.

Exploit

DoS

Time Of Check To Time Of Use

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-367

CWE-664

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025:15005

ALSA-2025:15011

ALSA-2025:16372

ALSA-2025:16373

AZL-65783

AZL-72947

BDU:2025-09815

CESA-2025_16372

CESA-2025_16373

CVE-2025-38461

DLA-4327-1

DLA-4328-1

DSA-5973-1

DSA-5975-1

ECHO-E27A-19FF-6D6D

INFSA-2025_15011

INFSA-2025_16372

INFSA-2025_16373

MGASA-2025-0218

MGASA-2025-0219

OESA-2026-2417

OESA-2026-2418

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1

RHSA-2025:16372

RHSA-2025:16373

RHSA-2025_15011

RHSA-2025_16372

RHSA-2025_16373

SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02923-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02969-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02996-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03023-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20577-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20586-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20601-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20602-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02853-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02969-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02996-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02997-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03011-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03023-1

USN-7774-1

USN-7774-2

USN-7774-3

USN-7774-4

USN-7774-5

USN-7775-1

USN-7775-2

USN-7775-3

USN-7776-1

USN-7879-1

USN-7879-2

USN-7879-3

USN-7879-4

USN-7880-1

USN-7934-1

USN-8028-1

USN-8028-2

USN-8028-3

USN-8028-4

USN-8028-5

USN-8028-6

USN-8028-7

USN-8028-8

USN-8031-1

USN-8031-2

USN-8031-3

USN-8052-1

USN-8052-2

USN-8074-1

USN-8074-2

USN-8126-1

Affected Products

Almalinux

Centos

Debian

Linuxmint

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Red Os

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 3425

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38461.json · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38571 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38158 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-22126 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39835 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39955 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-36350 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38385 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68320 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40231 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38122 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40223 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38044 · Vendor Advisory