Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-23162)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-23162). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/xe/vf: Don't try to trigger a full GT reset if VF

VFs don't have access to the GDRST(0x941c) register that driver
uses to reset a GT. Attempt to trigger a reset using debugfs:

$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0000:00:02.1/gt0/force_reset

or due to a hang condition detected by the driver leads to:

[ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm] GT0: trying reset from force_reset [xe]
[ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm] GT0: reset queued
[ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm] GT0: reset started
[ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm] GT0: VF is trying to write 0x1 to an inaccessible register 0x941c+0x0
[ ] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3069 at drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_sriov_vf.c:996 xe_gt_sriov_vf_write32+0xc6/0x580 [xe]
[ ] RIP: 0010:xe_gt_sriov_vf_write32+0xc6/0x580 [xe]
[ ] Call Trace:
[ ]
[ ] ? show_regs+0x6c/0x80
[ ] ? __warn+0x93/0x1c0
[ ] ? xe_gt_sriov_vf_write32+0xc6/0x580 [xe]
[ ] ? report_bug+0x182/0x1b0
[ ] ? handle_bug+0x6e/0xb0
[ ] ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x80
[ ] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
[ ] ? xe_gt_sriov_vf_write32+0xc6/0x580 [xe]
[ ] ? xe_gt_sriov_vf_write32+0xc6/0x580 [xe]
[ ] ? xe_gt_tlb_invalidation_reset+0xef/0x110 [xe]
[ ] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x41/0x2e0
[ ] xe_mmio_write32+0x64/0x150 [xe]
[ ] do_gt_reset+0x2f/0xa0 [xe]
[ ] gt_reset_worker+0x14e/0x1e0 [xe]
[ ] process_one_work+0x21c/0x740
[ ] worker_thread+0x1db/0x3c0

Fix that by sending H2G VF_RESET(0x550…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23162 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-23162" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-23162 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3 — 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 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3.

🛡️ 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 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3 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":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.24"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.13.12"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.14.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-23162 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23162 linux Fixed in: 6.12.25-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23162 linux