# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21669"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-31T11:25:33.185Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:02:55.148Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21669"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21669.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21669"
title: "vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes\n\nIf the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport,\nwe must discard any packets received because they are not expected\nand would cause issues when we access vsk-\u003etransport.\n\nA possible scenario is described by Hyunwoo Kim in the attached link,\nwhere after a first connect() interrupted by a signal, and a second\nconnect() failed, we can find `vsk-\u003etransport` at NULL, leading to a\nNULL pointer dereference."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18a7fc371d1dbf8deff16c2dd9292bcc73f43040"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6486915fa661584d70e8e7e4068c6c075c67dd6d"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88244163bc7e7b0ce9dd7bf4c8a563b41525c3ee"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d88b249e14bd0ee1e46bbe4f456e22e01b8c68de"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"677579b641af109613564460a4e3bdcb16850b61"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cb7c756f605ec02ffe562fb26828e4bcc5fdfc1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.234","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.127","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.74","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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