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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-default-livepatch  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-13024972
  • published24 Sept 2025
  • disclosed23 Sept 2025
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Introduced: 23 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-38618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.4.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch package and not the kernel-default-livepatch package as distributed by SLES.

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

vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY

It is possible for a vsock to autobind to VMADDR_PORT_ANY. This can cause a use-after-free when a connection is made to the bound socket. The socket returned by accept() also has port VMADDR_PORT_ANY but is not on the list of unbound sockets. Binding it will result in an extra refcount decrement similar to the one fixed in fcdd2242c023 (vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction).

Modify the check in __vsock_bind_connectible() to also prevent binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY.

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