Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-21755

medium Nessus Plugin ID 231149

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Orphan socket after transport release During socket release, sock_orphan() is called without considering that it sets sk->sk_wq to NULL.
Later, if SO_LINGER is enabled, this leads to a null pointer dereferenced in virtio_transport_wait_close(). Orphan the socket only after transport release. Partially reverts the 'Fixes:' commit. KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] lock_acquire+0x19e/0x500 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x47/0x70 add_wait_queue+0x46/0x230 virtio_transport_release+0x4e7/0x7f0 __vsock_release+0xfd/0x490 vsock_release+0x90/0x120
__sock_release+0xa3/0x250 sock_close+0x14/0x20 __fput+0x35e/0xa90 __x64_sys_close+0x78/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x93/0x1b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e (CVE-2025-21755)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 231149

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_21755.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21755

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21755

Detections

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