Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37867)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37867). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning

syzkaller triggered an oversized kvmalloc() warning.
Silence it by adding __GFP_NOWARN.

syzkaller log:
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 518 at mm/util.c:665 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6+ #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e67c10 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: 0000000000000400 RCX: ffffffff8149d46b
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881030fae80 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: 000000712c800000 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90001e67c10 R11: 0030ae0601000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007fde79159740(0000) GS:ffff88813bdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 0000000105eb4005 CR4: 00000000003706b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

ib_umem_odp_get+0x1f6/0x390
mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr+0x1e8/0x450
ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x28b/0x440
ib_uverbs_write+0x7d3/0xa30
vfs_write+0x1ac/0x6c0
ksys_write+0x134/0x170
? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1c/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110
entr…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-37867 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-37867" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-37867 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4 — 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 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4.

🛡️ 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 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.135, 6.6.88, 6.12.25, 6.14.4 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":"5.4.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.237"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.181"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.135"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.88"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.25"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-37867 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.140-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37867 linux Fixed in: 5.10.237-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37867 linux-hwe-edge