Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38196)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38196). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.15.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

io_uring/rsrc: validate buffer count with offset for cloning

syzbot reports that it can trigger a WARN_ON() for kmalloc() attempt
that's too big:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6488 at mm/slub.c:5024 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x520/0x640 mm/slub.c:5024
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6488 Comm: syz-executor312 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-gd7fa1af5b33e #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x520/0x640 mm/slub.c:5024
lr : __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
lr : __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x3b4/0x640 mm/slub.c:5012
sp : ffff80009cfd7a90
x29: ffff80009cfd7ac0 x28: ffff0000dd52a120 x27: 0000000000412dc0
x26: 0000000000000178 x25: ffff7000139faf70 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff800082f4cea8 x22: 00000000ffffffff x21: 000000010cd004a8
x20: ffff0000d75816c0 x19: ffff0000dd52a000 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff800092f39000 x16: ffff80008adbe9e4 x15: 0000000000000005
x14: 1ffff000139faf1c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff7000139faf21 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : ffff80008f27b938
x8 : 0000000000000002 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 00000000ffffffff x4 : 0000000000400dc0 x3 : 0000000200000000
x2 : 000000010cd004a8 x1 : ffff80008b3ebc40 x0 : 0000000000000001
Call trace:
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x520/0x640 mm/slub.c:5024 (P)
kvmallo…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38196 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.15.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38196" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38196 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.15.4 — 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 6.15.4.

🛡️ 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 6.15.4
```
ステージング環境で 6.15.4 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":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38196 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38196 linux-hwe-edge