Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38392)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38392). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.37, 6.15.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock

With VIRTCHNL2_CAP_MACFILTER enabled, the following warning is generated
on module load:

[ 324.701677] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:578
[ 324.701684] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1582, name: NetworkManager
[ 324.701689] preempt_count: 201, expected: 0
[ 324.701693] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[ 324.701697] 2 locks held by NetworkManager/1582:
[ 324.701702] #0: ffffffff9f7be770 (rtnl_mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_newlink+0x791/0x21e0
[ 324.701730] #1: ff1100216c380368 (_xmit_ETHER){....}-{2:2}, at: __dev_open+0x3f0/0x870
[ 324.701749] Preemption disabled at:
[ 324.701752] [] __dev_open+0x3dd/0x870
[ 324.701765] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 1582 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 324.701771] Hardware name: Intel Corporation M50FCP2SBSTD/M50FCP2SBSTD, BIOS SE5C741.86B.01.01.0001.2211140926 11/14/2022
[ 324.701774] Call Trace:
[ 324.701777]
[ 324.701779] dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
[ 324.701788] ? __dev_open+0x3dd/0x870
[ 324.701793] __might_resched.cold+0x1ef/0x23d
<..>
[ 324.701818] _mutex_lock+0x113/0x1b80
<..>
[ 324.701917] idpf_ctlq_clean_sq+0xad/0x4b0 [idpf]
[ 324.701935] ? kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 324.701941] idpf_mb_clean+0x143/0x380 [idpf]
<..>
[ 324.701991] idpf_send_mb_msg+0x111/0x720 [idpf]
[ 324.702009] idpf_vc_xn…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38392 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.37, 6.15.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38392" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38392 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.37, 6.15.6 — 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 6.12.37, 6.15.6.

🛡️ 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 6.12.37, 6.15.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.37, 6.15.6 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":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.37"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38392 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38392 linux Fixed in: 6.12.37-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38392 linux-hwe-edge