Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37960)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-37960). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

memblock: Accept allocated memory before use in memblock_double_array()

When increasing the array size in memblock_double_array() and the slab
is not yet available, a call to memblock_find_in_range() is used to
reserve/allocate memory. However, the range returned may not have been
accepted, which can result in a crash when booting an SNP guest:

RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x68/0x130
Code: ...
RSP: 0000:ffffffff9cc03ce8 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: ff11001ff83e5000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fffffffffffff000
RDX: 0000000000000bc0 RSI: ffffffff9dba8860 RDI: ff11001ff83e5c00
RBP: 0000000000002000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000002000
R10: 000000207fffe000 R11: 0000040000000000 R12: ffffffff9d06ef78
R13: ff11001ff83e5000 R14: ffffffff9dba7c60 R15: 0000000000000c00
memblock_double_array+0xff/0x310
memblock_add_range+0x1fb/0x2f0
memblock_reserve+0x4f/0xa0
memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xac/0x130
memblock_alloc_internal+0x53/0xc0
memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x3d/0xa0
swiotlb_init_remap+0x149/0x2f0
mem_init+0xb/0xb0
mm_core_init+0x8f/0x350
start_kernel+0x17e/0x5d0
x86_64_start_reservations+0x14/0x30
x86_64_start_kernel+0x92/0xa0
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x194/0x19b

Mitigate this by calling accept_memory() on the memory range returned
before the slab is available.

Prior to v6.12, the accept_memory() interface used a 'start' and 'end'
parameter instead of 'start' and 'size', therefor…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-37960 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-37960" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-37960 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7 — 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 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7.

🛡️ 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 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.92, 6.12.29, 6.14.7 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":"6.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.92"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.29"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-37960 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37960 linux Fixed in: 6.12.29-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37960 linux-hwe-edge