Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21668)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21668). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: add missing loop break condition

Currently imx8mp_blk_ctrl_remove() will continue the for loop
until an out-of-bounds exception occurs.

pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : dev_pm_domain_detach+0x8/0x48
lr : imx8mp_blk_ctrl_shutdown+0x58/0x90
sp : ffffffc084f8bbf0
x29: ffffffc084f8bbf0 x28: ffffff80daf32ac0 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: ffffffc081658d78 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffffc08201b028
x23: ffffff80d0db9490 x22: ffffffc082340a78 x21: 00000000000005b0
x20: ffffff80d19bc180 x19: 000000000000000a x18: ffffffffffffffff
x17: ffffffc080a39e08 x16: ffffffc080a39c98 x15: 4f435f464f006c72
x14: 0000000000000004 x13: ffffff80d0172110 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffffff80d0537740 x10: ffffff80d05376c0 x9 : ffffffc0808ed2d8
x8 : ffffffc084f8bab0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffffff80d19b9420 x4 : fffffffe03466e60 x3 : 0000000080800077
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
dev_pm_domain_detach+0x8/0x48
platform_shutdown+0x2c/0x48
device_shutdown+0x158/0x268
kernel_restart_prepare+0x40/0x58
kernel_kexec+0x58/0xe8
__do_sys_reboot+0x198/0x258
__arm64_sys_reboot+0x2c/0x40
invoke_syscall+0x5c/0x138
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x38/0xc8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
Code: 8128c2d0 ffffffc0 aa1e03e9 d503201f

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21668 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-21668" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-21668 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.127, 6.6.74, 6.12.11 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.127"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.74"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-21668 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.127-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21668 linux Fixed in: 6.1.128-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21668 linux-hwe-edge