Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38417)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38417). 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:

ice: fix eswitch code memory leak in reset scenario

Add simple eswitch mode checker in attaching VF procedure and allocate
required port representor memory structures only in switchdev mode.
The reset flows triggers VF (if present) detach/attach procedure.
It might involve VF port representor(s) re-creation if the device is
configured is switchdev mode (not legacy one).
The memory was blindly allocated in current implementation,
regardless of the mode and not freed if in legacy mode.

Kmemeleak trace:
unreferenced object (percpu) 0x7e3bce5b888458 (size 40):
comm "bash", pid 1784, jiffies 4295743894
hex dump (first 32 bytes on cpu 45):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x4c4/0x7c0
ice_repr_create+0x66/0x130 [ice]
ice_repr_create_vf+0x22/0x70 [ice]
ice_eswitch_attach_vf+0x1b/0xa0 [ice]
ice_reset_all_vfs+0x1dd/0x2f0 [ice]
ice_pci_err_resume+0x3b/0xb0 [ice]
pci_reset_function+0x8f/0x120
reset_store+0x56/0xa0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x120/0x1b0
vfs_write+0x31c/0x430
ksys_write+0x61/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Testing hints (ethX is PF netdev):

create at least one VF
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs
trigger the reset
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/ethX/d…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38417 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-2025-38417" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38417 (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.

❓ 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 6.12.35, 6.15.4.

🛡️ 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 6.12.35, 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。
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":"6.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.35"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38417 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38417 linux Fixed in: 6.12.35-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38417 linux-hwe-edge