Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21803)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21803). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

LoongArch: Fix warnings during S3 suspend

The enable_gpe_wakeup() function calls acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes(),
and the later one may call the preempt_schedule_common() function,
resulting in a thread switch and causing the CPU to be in an interrupt
enabled state after the enable_gpe_wakeup() function returns, leading
to the warnings as follow.

[ C0] WARNING: ... at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:845 ktime_get+0xbc/0xc8
[ C0] ...
[ C0] Call Trace:
[ C0] [<90000000002243b4>] show_stack+0x64/0x188
[ C0] [<900000000164673c>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x88
[ C0] [<90000000002687e4>] __warn+0x8c/0x148
[ C0] [<90000000015e9978>] report_bug+0x1c0/0x2b0
[ C0] [<90000000016478e4>] do_bp+0x204/0x3b8
[ C0] [<90000000025b1924>] exception_handlers+0x1924/0x10000
[ C0] [<9000000000343bbc>] ktime_get+0xbc/0xc8
[ C0] [<9000000000354c08>] tick_sched_timer+0x30/0xb0
[ C0] [<90000000003408e0>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x160/0x378
[ C0] [<9000000000341f14>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x144/0x388
[ C0] [<9000000000228348>] constant_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x48
[ C0] [<90000000002feba4>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x64/0x1e8
[ C0] [<90000000002fed48>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x20/0x80
[ C0] [<9000000000306b9c>] handle_percpu_irq+0x5c/0x98
[ C0] [<90000000002fd4a0>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x30/0x48
[ C0] [<9000000000d0c7b0>] handle_cpu_irq+0x70/0xa8
[ C0] [<9000000001646b30>] handle_loongarch_irq+0x30/0x48
[ C0] [<9000000001646bc8>] do_vint+0x8…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21803 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-21803" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-21803 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 — 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 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2.

🛡️ 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 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 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":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.76"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.13"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.13.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-21803 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21803 linux Fixed in: 6.12.13-1