CVE-2025-38403 (GCVE-0-2025-38403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-25 13:08
Modified
2025-07-28 04:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the structure.
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Linux Linux Version: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
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Version: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version: d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
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