CVE-2025-1290 – Google ChromeOS Virtio Transport Use-After-Free Kernel Code Execution

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CVE-2025-1290 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 7f6e188d-c52a-4a19-8674-3c3fa7d1fc7f

    Apr. 17, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A race condition Use-After-Free vulnerability exists in the virtio_transport_space_update function within the Kernel 5.4 on ChromeOS. Concurrent allocation and freeing of the virtio_vsock_sock structure
    during an AF_VSOCK connect syscall can occur before a worker thread accesses it resulting in a dangling pointer and potential kernel code execution.
    Added Reference https://issues.chromium.org/issues/b/301886931
    Added Reference https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/301886931
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