Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38223)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38223). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.35, 6.15.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size
The generic/397 test hits a BUG_ON for the case of encrypted inode with
unaligned file size (for example, 33K or 1K):
[ 877.737811] run fstests generic/397 at 2025-01-03 12:34:40
[ 877.875761] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 877.876130] libceph: client4614 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 877.991965] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 877.992334] libceph: client4617 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.017234] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.017594] libceph: client4620 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.031394] xfs_io (pid 18988) is setting deprecated v1 encryption policy; recommend upgrading to v2.
[ 878.054528] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.054892] libceph: client4623 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.070287] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.070704] libceph: client4626 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.264586] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.265258] libceph: client4629 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.374578] -----------[ cut here ]------------
[ 878.374586] kernel BUG at net/ceph/messenger.c:1070!
[ 878.375150] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 878.378145] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 4759 Comm: kworker…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38223 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.35, 6.15.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38223" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-38223 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.35, 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.12.35, 6.15.4.
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. 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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.12.35, 6.15.4ステージング環境で 6.12.35, 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。
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3Post-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-2025-38223 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38223 linux Fixed in: 6.12.35-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38223 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org