Use-After-Free in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38117)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38117). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: Protect mgmt_pending list with its own lock
This uses a mutex to protect from concurrent access of mgmt_pending
list which can cause crashes like:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_sock_get_channel+0x60/0x68 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:91
Read of size 2 at addr ffff0000c48885b2 by task syz.4.334/7318
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7318 Comm: syz.4.334 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-g187899f4124a #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call trace:
show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:466 (C)
__dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0xa8/0x254 mm/kasan/report.c:408
print_report+0x68/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xb0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
__asan_report_load2_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:379
hci_sock_get_channel+0x60/0x68 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:91
mgmt_pending_find+0x7c/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:223
pending_find net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:947 [inline]
remove_adv_monitor+0x44/0x1a4 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5445
hci_mgmt_cmd+0x780/0xc00 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1712
hci_sock_sendmsg+0x544/0xbb0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1832
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
sock_write_iter+0x25c/0x378 net/soc…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38117 has been found in Linux kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 7.8/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2025-38117" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-38117 (Linux kernel) — CWE-416 / CVSS v3 7.8
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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.
Use-after-free (CWE-416) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38117 linux-lts
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38117 linux
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38117 linux-aws
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web github.com