Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38442)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38442). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.15.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

block: reject bs > ps block devices when THP is disabled

If THP is disabled and when a block device with logical block size >
page size is present, the following null ptr deref panic happens during
boot:

[ [13.2 mK AOSAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000K0 0 0[07]
[ 13.017749] RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x3b/0x380

[ 13.025448] Call Trace:
[ 13.025692]
[ 13.025895] block_read_full_folio+0x610/0x780
[ 13.026379] ? __pfx_blkdev_get_block+0x10/0x10
[ 13.027008] ? __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x1fa/0x2b0
[ 13.027548] ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 13.028080] filemap_read_folio+0x9b/0x200
[ 13.028526] ? __pfx_filemap_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 13.029030] ? __filemap_get_folio+0x43/0x620
[ 13.029497] do_read_cache_folio+0x155/0x3b0
[ 13.029962] ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 13.030381] read_part_sector+0xb7/0x2a0
[ 13.030805] read_lba+0x174/0x2c0

[ 13.045348] nvme_scan_ns+0x684/0x850 [nvme_core]
[ 13.045858] ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]
[ 13.046414] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x40
[ 13.046843] ? __switch_to+0x523/0x10a0
[ 13.047253] ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x30
[ 13.047742] ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns_async+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]
[ 13.048353] async_run_entry_fn+0x96/0x4f0
[ 13.048787] process_one_work+0x667/0x10a0
[ 13.049219] worker_thread+0x63c/0xf60

As large folio support depends on THP, only al…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38442 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.15.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38442" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38442 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.15.7 — 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 6.15.7.

🛡️ 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 6.15.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.15.7 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":"6.15.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38442 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1