Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38029)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38029). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.14.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

kasan: avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context

apply_to_pte_range() enters the lazy MMU mode and then invokes
kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on each page table walk iteration.
However, the callback can go into sleep when trying to allocate a single
page, e.g. if an architecutre disables preemption on lazy MMU mode enter.

On s390 if make arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_enable() and
arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_disable(), such crash occurs:

[ 0.663336] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:321
[ 0.663348] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd
[ 0.663358] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 0.663366] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[ 0.663375] no locks held by kthreadd/2.
[ 0.663383] Preemption disabled at:
[ 0.663386] [<0002f3284cbb4eda>] apply_to_pte_range+0xfa/0x4a0
[ 0.663405] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5-gcc-kasan-00043-gd76bb1ebb558-dirty #162 PREEMPT
[ 0.663408] Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 701 (KVM/Linux)
[ 0.663409] Call Trace:
[ 0.663410] [<0002f3284c385f58>] dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x140
[ 0.663413] [<0002f3284c507b9e>] __might_resched+0x66e/0x700
[ 0.663415] [<0002f3284cc4f6c0>] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x370/0x4b0
[ 0.663419] [<0002f3284ccc73c0>] alloc_pages_mpol+0x1a0/0x4a0
[ 0.663421] [<0002f3284ccc8518>] allo…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38029 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.14.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38029" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38029 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.14.9 — 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 6.14.9.

🛡️ 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 6.14.9
```
ステージング環境で 6.14.9 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":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38029 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38029 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38029 linux-hwe-edge