Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38284)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38284). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.15.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only

To support 36-bit DMA, configure chip proprietary bit via PCI config API
or chip DBI interface. However, the PCI device mmap isn't set yet and
the DBI is also inaccessible via mmap, so only if the bit can be accessible
via PCI config API, chip can support 36-bit DMA. Otherwise, fallback to
32-bit DMA.

With NULL mmap address, kernel throws trace:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001090
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 71 Comm: irq/26-pciehp Tainted: G OE 6.14.2-061402-generic #202504101348
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
RIP: 0010:rtw89_pci_ops_write16+0x12/0x30 [rtw89_pci]
RSP: 0018:ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffffffffc158f9c0 RBX: ffff94865e702020 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000718 RSI: 0000000000001090 RDI: ffff94865e702020
RBP: ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000015
R13: 0000000000000719 R14: ffffb0ffc0acfa1f R15: ffffffffc1813060
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9486f3480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000001090 CR3: 0000000090440001 CR4: 00000000000626f0
Cal…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38284 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.15.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38284" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38284 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 6.15.3.

🛡️ 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 6.15.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.11.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38284 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38284 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38284 linux-hwe-edge