CVE-2025-38403

Name	CVE-2025-38403
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-5973-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.137-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.147-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.38-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.41-1	fixed
	forky, sid	6.16.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.147-1		DSA-5973-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.12.37-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/223e2288f4b8c262a864e2c03964ffac91744cd5 (6.16-rc5)