Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38479)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38479). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

dmaengine: fsl-edma: free irq correctly in remove path

Add fsl_edma->txirq/errirq check to avoid below warning because no
errirq at i.MX9 platform. Otherwise there will be kernel dump:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at kernel/irq/devres.c:144 devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7#18
Hardware name: NXP i.MX93 11X11 EVK board (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80
lr : devm_free_irq+0x48/0x80
Call trace:
devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80 (P)
devm_free_irq+0x48/0x80 (L)
fsl_edma_remove+0xc4/0xc8
platform_remove+0x28/0x44
device_remove+0x4c/0x80

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38479 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38479" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38479 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 — 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 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2.

🛡️ 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 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2 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":"6.12.23"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.13.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.14.0"},{"fixed":"6.14.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38479 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38479 linux Fixed in: 6.12.25-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38479 linux-hwe-edge