Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38126)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38126). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: stmmac: make sure that ptp_rate is not 0 before configuring timestamping

The stmmac platform drivers that do not open-code the clk_ptp_rate value
after having retrieved the default one from the device-tree can end up
with 0 in clk_ptp_rate (as clk_get_rate can return 0). It will
eventually propagate up to PTP initialization when bringing up the
interface, leading to a divide by 0:

Division by zero in kernel.
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.30-00001-g48313bd5768a #22
Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
Call trace:
unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x8c
dump_stack_lvl from Ldiv0_64+0x8/0x18
Ldiv0_64 from stmmac_init_tstamp_counter+0x190/0x1a4
stmmac_init_tstamp_counter from stmmac_hw_setup+0xc1c/0x111c
stmmac_hw_setup from __stmmac_open+0x18c/0x434
__stmmac_open from stmmac_open+0x3c/0xbc
stmmac_open from __dev_open+0xf4/0x1ac
__dev_open from __dev_change_flags+0x1cc/0x224
__dev_change_flags from dev_change_flags+0x24/0x60
dev_change_flags from ip_auto_config+0x2e8/0x11a0
ip_auto_config from do_one_initcall+0x84/0x33c
do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x1b8/0x214
kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x24/0x140
kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28
Exception stack(0xe0815fb0 to 0xe0815ff8)

Prevent this division by 0 by adding an explicit check and error log
about the actual issue. Whi…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38126 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38126" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38126 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3 — 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 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3.

🛡️ 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 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.142, 6.6.94, 6.12.34, 6.15.3 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":"4.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.142"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.94"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.34"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38126 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.143-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38126 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38126 linux-azure