# 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-2025-38618"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T13:01:24.678Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:03:33.962Z"
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-2025-38618"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38618.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38618"
title: "vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY\n\nIt is possible for a vsock to autobind to VMADDR_PORT_ANY. This can\ncause a use-after-free when a connection is made to the bound socket.\nThe socket returned by accept() also has port VMADDR_PORT_ANY but is not\non the list of unbound sockets. Binding it will result in an extra\nrefcount decrement similar to the one fixed in fcdd2242c023 (vsock: Keep\nthe binding until socket destruction).\n\nModify the check in __vsock_bind_connectible() to also prevent binding\nto VMADDR_PORT_ANY."
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