Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38042)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38042). 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:

dmaengine: ti: k3-udma-glue: Drop skip_fdq argument from k3_udma_glue_reset_rx_chn

The user of k3_udma_glue_reset_rx_chn() e.g. ti_am65_cpsw_nuss can
run on multiple platforms having different DMA architectures.
On some platforms there can be one FDQ for all flows in the RX channel
while for others there is a separate FDQ for each flow in the RX channel.

So far we have been relying on the skip_fdq argument of
k3_udma_glue_reset_rx_chn().

Instead of relying on the user to provide this information, infer it
based on DMA architecture during k3_udma_glue_request_rx_chn() and save it
in an internal flag 'single_fdq'. Use that flag at
k3_udma_glue_reset_rx_chn() to deicide if the FDQ needs
to be cleared for every flow or just for flow 0.

Fixes the below issue on ti_am65_cpsw_nuss driver on AM62-SK.

ip link set eth1 down
ip link set eth0 down
ethtool -L eth0 rx 8
ip link set eth0 up
modprobe -r ti_am65_cpsw_nuss

[ 103.045726] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 103.050505] k3_knav_desc_pool size 512000 != avail 64000
[ 103.050703] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 450 at drivers/net/ethernet/ti/k3-cppi-desc-pool.c:33 k3_cppi_desc_pool_destroy+0xa0/0xa8 [k3_cppi_desc_pool]
[ 103.068810] Modules linked in: ti_am65_cpsw_nuss(-) k3_cppi_desc_pool snd_soc_hdmi_codec crct10dif_ce snd_soc_simple_card snd_soc_simple_card_utils display_connector rtc_ti_k3 k3_j72xx_bandgap tidss drm_client_lib snd_soc_davinci_mcas…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38042 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-2025-38042" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38042 (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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38042 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38042 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38042 linux