Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-22120)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-22120). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 6.14.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ext4: goto right label 'out_mmap_sem' in ext4_setattr()

Otherwise, if ext4_inode_attach_jinode() fails, a hung task will
happen because filemap_invalidate_unlock() isn't called to unlock
mapping->invalidate_lock. Like this:

EXT4-fs error (device sda) in ext4_setattr:5557: Out of memory
INFO: task fsstress:374 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-next-20250206-xfstests-dirty #726
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:fsstress state:D stack:0 pid:374 tgid:374 ppid:373
task_flags:0x440140 flags:0x00000000
Call Trace:

__schedule+0x2c9/0x7f0
schedule+0x27/0xa0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x278/0x4c0
down_read+0x59/0xb0
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x65/0x1b0
filemap_get_pages+0x124/0x3e0
filemap_read+0x114/0x3d0
vfs_read+0x297/0x360
ksys_read+0x6c/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-22120 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 6.14.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-22120" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-22120 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 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 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 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 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 6.14.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 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":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.89"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.26"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-22120 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22120 linux Fixed in: 6.12.27-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22120 linux-hwe-edge