Missing Initialization of Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-extra-matched  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELMODULESEXTRAMATCHED-14086801
  • published21 Nov 2025
  • disclosed25 Jul 2025

Introduced: 25 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-38403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-extra-matched package and not the kernel-modules-extra-matched package as distributed by RHEL.

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.