Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38268)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38268). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

usb: typec: tcpm: move tcpm_queue_vdm_unlocked to asynchronous work

A state check was previously added to tcpm_queue_vdm_unlocked to
prevent a deadlock where the DisplayPort Alt Mode driver would be
executing work and attempting to grab the tcpm_lock while the TCPM
was holding the lock and attempting to unregister the altmode, blocking
on the altmode driver's cancel_work_sync call.

Because the state check isn't protected, there is a small window
where the Alt Mode driver could determine that the TCPM is
in a ready state and attempt to grab the lock while the
TCPM grabs the lock and changes the TCPM state to one that
causes the deadlock. The callstack is provided below:

[110121.667392][ C7] Call trace:
[110121.667396][ C7] __switch_to+0x174/0x338
[110121.667406][ C7] __schedule+0x608/0x9f0
[110121.667414][ C7] schedule+0x7c/0xe8
[110121.667423][ C7] kernfs_drain+0xb0/0x114
[110121.667431][ C7] __kernfs_remove+0x16c/0x20c
[110121.667436][ C7] kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x74/0xe8
[110121.667442][ C7] sysfs_remove_group+0x84/0xe8
[110121.667450][ C7] sysfs_remove_groups+0x34/0x58
[110121.667458][ C7] device_remove_groups+0x10/0x20
[110121.667464][ C7] device_release_driver_internal+0x164/0x2e4
[110121.667475][ C7] device_release_driver+0x18/0x28
[110121.667484][ C7] bus_remove_device+0xec/0x118
[110121.667491][ C7] device_del+0x1e8/0x4ac
[110121.667498][…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38268 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.34, 6.15.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38268" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38268 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 6.12.34, 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 6.12.34, 6.15.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.9.0"},{"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-2025-38268 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38268 linux Fixed in: 6.12.35-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38268 linux-hwe-edge