# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38462"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:45.168Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:28:28.695Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38462"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38462.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38462"
title: "vsock: Fix transport_{g2h,h2g} TOCTOU"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock: Fix transport_{g2h,h2g} TOCTOU\n\nvsock_find_cid() and vsock_dev_do_ioctl() may race with module unload.\ntransport_{g2h,h2g} may become NULL after the NULL check.\n\nIntroduce vsock_transport_local_cid() to protect from a potential\nnull-ptr-deref.\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]\nRIP: 0010:vsock_find_cid+0x47/0x90\nCall Trace:\n __vsock_bind+0x4b2/0x720\n vsock_bind+0x90/0xe0\n __sys_bind+0x14d/0x1e0\n __x64_sys_bind+0x6e/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]\nRIP: 0010:vsock_dev_do_ioctl.isra.0+0x58/0xf0\nCall Trace:\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x12d/0x190\n do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5496ee685c48ed1cc183cd4263602579bb4a615"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80d7dc15805a93d520a249ac6d13d4f4df161c1b"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5752d8dbb3dfd7f1a9faf0f65377e60826ea9a17"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"401239811fa728fcdd53e360a91f157ffd23e1f4"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3734d78210cceb2ee5615719a62a5c55ed381ff8"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a1bcab67bea797d83aa9dd948a0ac6ed52d121d"},{"version":"c0cfa2d8a788fcf45df5bf4070ab2474c88d543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"209fd720838aaf1420416494c5505096478156b4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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