Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38019). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.92, 6.12.30, 6.14.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix use-after-free when deleting GRE net devices

The driver only offloads neighbors that are constructed on top of net
devices registered by it or their uppers (which are all Ethernet). The
device supports GRE encapsulation and decapsulation of forwarded
traffic, but the driver will not offload dummy neighbors constructed on
top of GRE net devices as they are not uppers of its net devices:

ip link add name gre1 up type gre tos inherit local 192.0.2.1 remote 198.51.100.1

ip neigh add 0.0.0.0 lladdr 0.0.0.0 nud noarp dev gre1

$ ip neigh show dev gre1 nud noarp
0.0.0.0 lladdr 0.0.0.0 NOARP

(Note that the neighbor is not marked with 'offload')

When the driver is reloaded and the existing configuration is replayed,
the driver does not perform the same check regarding existing neighbors
and offloads the previously added one:

devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0

$ ip neigh show dev gre1 nud noarp
0.0.0.0 lladdr 0.0.0.0 offload NOARP

If the neighbor is later deleted, the driver will ignore the
notification (given the GRE net device is not its upper) and will
therefore keep referencing freed memory, resulting in a use-after-free
[1] when the net device is deleted:

ip neigh del 0.0.0.0 lladdr 0.0.0.0 dev gre1

ip link del dev gre1

Fix by skipping neighbor replay if the net device for which the replay
is performed is not our upper.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38019 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.92, 6.12.30, 6.14.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38019" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38019 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.92, 6.12.30, 6.14.8 — 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, 6.12.30, 6.14.8.

🛡️ 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, 6.12.30, 6.14.8
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.92, 6.12.30, 6.14.8 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":"6.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.92"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.30"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38019 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38019 linux Fixed in: 6.12.30-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38019 linux-hwe-edge