Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21912)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-21912). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

gpio: rcar: Use raw_spinlock to protect register access

Use raw_spinlock in order to fix spurious messages about invalid context
when spinlock debugging is enabled. The lock is only used to serialize
register access.

[    4.239592] =============================
[    4.239595] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[    4.239599] 6.13.0-rc7-arm64-renesas-05496-gd088502a519f #35 Not tainted
[    4.239603] -----------------------------
[    4.239606] kworker/u8:5/76 is trying to lock:
[    4.239609] ffff0000091898a0 (&p->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: gpio_rcar_config_interrupt_input_mode+0x34/0x164
[    4.239641] other info that might help us debug this:
[    4.239643] context-{5:5}
[    4.239646] 5 locks held by kworker/u8:5/76:
[    4.239651]  #0: ffff0000080fb148 ((wq_completion)async){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x190/0x62c
[    4.250180] OF: /soc/sound@ec500000/ports/port@0/endpoint: Read of boolean property 'frame-master' with a value.
[    4.254094]  #1: ffff80008299bd80 ((work_completion)(&entry->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1b8/0x62c
[    4.254109]  #2: ffff00000920c8f8
[    4.258345] OF: /soc/sound@ec500000/ports/port@1/endpoint: Read of boolean property 'bitclock-master' with a value.
[    4.264803]  (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: __device_attach_async_helper+0x3c/0xdc
[    4.264820]  #3: ffff00000a50ca40 (request_class#2){+.+.}-{4…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21912 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-21912" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-21912 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7 — 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 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7.

🛡️ 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 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.241, 5.15.179, 6.1.131, 6.6.83, 6.12.19, 6.13.7 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":"3.10.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.241"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.179"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.131"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.83"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.19"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.13.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-21912 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.131-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21912 linux Fixed in: 5.10.244-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21912 linux