CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39718

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the vsock/virtio driver in the Linux kernel, there was no validation of the length in the packet header before calling skb_put(). If the host advertises an excessive length, it could cause SKB buffer overflow. The fix adds length validation before skb_put().

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of buffer overflow in the virtio network stack, which could lead to system crashes or potential remote code execution by a malicious host.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version that validates the length in the packet header before calling skb_put().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put() When receiving a vsock packet in the guest, only the virtqueue buffer size is validated prior to virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put(). Unfortunately, virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() uses the length from the packet header as the length argument to skb_put(), potentially resulting in SKB overflow if the host has gone wonky. Validate the length as advertised by the packet header before calling virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put().

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS