Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37904)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37904). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.14.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: fix the inode leak in btrfs_iget()

[BUG]
There is a bug report that a syzbot reproducer can lead to the following
busy inode at unmount time:

BTRFS info (device loop1): last unmount of filesystem 1680000e-3c1e-4c46-84b6-56bd3909af50
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop1 (btrfs)
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/super.c:650!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 48168 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00471-g119009db2674 #2 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:generic_shutdown_super+0x2e9/0x390 fs/super.c:650
Call Trace:

kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60 fs/super.c:1237
btrfs_kill_super+0x3b/0x50 fs/btrfs/super.c:2099
deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x1a0 fs/super.c:473
deactivate_super fs/super.c:506 [inline]
deactivate_super+0xe2/0x100 fs/super.c:502
cleanup_mnt+0x21f/0x440 fs/namespace.c:1435
task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
_syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x269/0x290 kernel/entry/common.c:218
do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x250 arch/x86/entry/syscall…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-37904 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.14.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-37904" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-37904 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.14.6 — 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 6.14.6.

🛡️ 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 6.14.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.14.6 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":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-37904 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37904 linux-hwe-edge