Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38263)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38263). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

bcache: fix NULL pointer in cache_set_flush()

LINE#1794 - LINE#1887 is some codes about function of
bch_cache_set_alloc().
LINE#2078 - LINE#2142 is some codes about function of
register_cache_set().
register_cache_set() will call bch_cache_set_alloc() in LINE#2098.

1794 struct cache_set *bch_cache_set_alloc(struct cache_sb *sb)
1795 {
...
1860 if (!(c->devices = kcalloc(c->nr_uuids, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL)) ||
1861 mempool_init_slab_pool(&c->search, 32, bch_search_cache) ||
1862 mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&c->bio_meta, 2,
1863 sizeof(struct bbio) + sizeof(struct bio_vec) *
1864 bucket_pages(c)) ||
1865 mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&c->fill_iter, 1, iter_size) ||
1866 bioset_init(&c->bio_split, 4, offsetof(struct bbio, bio),
1867 BIOSET_NEED_BVECS|BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER) ||
1868 !(c->uuids = alloc_bucket_pages(GFP_KERNEL, c)) ||
1869 !(c->moving_gc_wq = alloc_workqueue("bcache_gc",
1870 WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0)) ||
1871 bch_journal_alloc(c) ||
1872 bch_btree_cache_alloc(c) ||
1873 bch_open_buckets_alloc(c) ||
1874 bch_bset_sort_state_init(&c->sort, ilog2(c->btree_pages)))
1875 goto err;…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38263 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38263" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38263 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5 — 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 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5.

🛡️ 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 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.143, 6.6.96, 6.12.36, 6.15.5 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":"3.10.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.240"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.187"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.143"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.96"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.36"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38263 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.143-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38263 linux Fixed in: 5.10.244-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38263 linux