Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37837)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37837). 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:

iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix warnings due to dmam_free_coherent()

Two WARNINGs are observed when SMMU driver rolls back upon failure:
arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: Failed to register iommu
arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: probe with driver arm-smmu-v3 failed with error -22
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WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:74 dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8
Call trace:
dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8 (P)
tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x188
tegra241_cmdqv_remove_vintf+0x60/0x148
tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x48/0xc8
arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60
devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40
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128 pages are still in use!
WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:6902 free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8
Call trace:
free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8 (P)
cma_release+0x154/0x2f0
dma_free_contiguous+0x38/0xa0
dma_direct_free+0x10c/0x248
dma_free_attrs+0x100/0x290
dmam_free_coherent+0x78/0xd8
tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x160
tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x98/0x198
arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60
devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40

This is because the LVCMDQ queue memory are managed by devres, while that
dmam_free_coherent() is called in the context of devm_action_release().

Jason pointed out that "arm_smmu_impl_probe() has mis-ordered the devres
callbacks if ops->device_remove() is going to be manually freeing things
that probe allocated":
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iomm…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-37837 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-2025-37837" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-37837 (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":"6.12.0"},{"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-2025-37837 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37837 linux Fixed in: 6.12.25-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37837 linux-hwe-edge