CVE-2025-38611 Affecting kernel-modules-partner package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELMODULESPARTNER-12069730
  • published21 Aug 2025
  • disclosed19 Aug 2025

Introduced: 19 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38611  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-modules-partner.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-partner package and not the kernel-modules-partner package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

vmci: Prevent the dispatching of uninitialized payloads

The reproducer executes the host's unlocked_ioctl call in two different tasks. When init_context fails, the struct vmci_event_ctx is not fully initialized when executing vmci_datagram_dispatch() to send events to all vm contexts. This affects the datagram taken from the datagram queue of its context by another task, because the datagram payload is not initialized according to the size payload_size, which causes the kernel data to leak to the user space.

Before dispatching the datagram, and before setting the payload content, explicitly set the payload content to 0 to avoid data leakage caused by incomplete payload initialization.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1