Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-22065)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-22065). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

idpf: fix adapter NULL pointer dereference on reboot

With SRIOV enabled, idpf ends up calling into idpf_remove() twice.
First via idpf_shutdown() and then again when idpf_remove() calls into
sriov_disable(), because the VF devices use the idpf driver, hence the
same remove routine. When that happens, it is possible for the adapter
to be NULL from the first call to idpf_remove(), leading to a NULL
pointer dereference.

echo 1 > /sys/class/net//device/sriov_numvfs
reboot

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
...
RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x22/0x1f0 [idpf]
...
? idpf_remove+0x22/0x1f0 [idpf]
? idpf_remove+0x1e4/0x1f0 [idpf]
pci_device_remove+0x3f/0xb0
device_release_driver_internal+0x19f/0x200
pci_stop_bus_device+0x6d/0x90
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x12/0x20
pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xbe/0x120
sriov_disable+0x34/0xe0
idpf_sriov_configure+0x58/0x140 [idpf]
idpf_remove+0x1b9/0x1f0 [idpf]
idpf_shutdown+0x12/0x30 [idpf]
pci_device_shutdown+0x35/0x60
device_shutdown+0x156/0x200
...

Replace the direct idpf_remove() call in idpf_shutdown() with
idpf_vc_core_deinit() and idpf_deinit_dflt_mbx(), which perform
the bulk of the cleanup, such as stopping the init task, freeing IRQs,
destroying the vports and freeing the mailbox. This avoids the calls to
sriov_disable() in addition to a small netdev cleanup, and destroying
workqueues, which don't seem to be required on shutdown.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-22065 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-22065" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-22065 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 — 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 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2.

🛡️ 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 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 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":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.23"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.13.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.14.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-22065 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22065 linux Fixed in: 6.12.25-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22065 linux-hwe-edge