Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38053)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38053). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.31, 6.14.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

idpf: fix null-ptr-deref in idpf_features_check

idpf_features_check is used to validate the TX packet. skb header
length is compared with the hardware supported value received from
the device control plane. The value is stored in the adapter structure
and to access it, vport pointer is used. During reset all the vports
are released and the vport pointer that the netdev private structure
points to is NULL.

To avoid null-ptr-deref, store the max header length value in netdev
private structure. This also helps to cache the value and avoid
accessing adapter pointer in hot path.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000068
...
RIP: 0010:idpf_features_check+0x6d/0xe0 [idpf]
Call Trace:

? __die+0x23/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x154/0x520
? exc_page_fault+0x76/0x190
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? idpf_features_check+0x6d/0xe0 [idpf]
netif_skb_features+0x88/0x310
validate_xmit_skb+0x2a/0x2b0
validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4c/0x70
sch_direct_xmit+0x19d/0x3a0
__dev_queue_xmit+0xb74/0xe70
...

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38053 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.31, 6.14.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38053" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38053 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.31, 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 6.12.31, 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 6.12.31, 6.14.9
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.31, 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":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.31"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38053 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38053 linux Fixed in: 6.12.32-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38053 linux-hwe-edge