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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21669 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport, we must discard any packets received because they are not expected and would cause iss

[NVD] CVE-2025-21669 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport, we must discard any packets received because they are not expected and would cause iss

lownvdPublished 2025-01-31

CVE-2025-21669 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2025-01-31T12:15:28.053

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes

If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport, we must discard any packets received because they are not expected and would cause issues when we access vsk->transport.

A possible scenari

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21669