Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39769)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39769). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.16.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt_en: Fix lockdep warning during rmmod
The commit under the Fixes tag added a netdev_assert_locked() in
bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs(). The lock should be held during normal run-time
but the assert will be triggered (see below) during bnxt_remove_one()
which should not need the lock. The netdev is already unregistered by
then. Fix it by calling netdev_assert_locked_or_invisible() which will
not assert if the netdev is unregistered.
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 2241 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:17 bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs+0xf8/0x100 [bnxt_en]
Modules linked in: rpcrdma rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm configfs ib_core bnxt_en(-) bridge stp llc x86_pkg_temp_thermal xfs tg3 [last unloaded: bnxt_re]
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 2241 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G S W 6.16.0 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
RIP: 0010:bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs+0xf8/0x100 [bnxt_en]
Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 47 60 be ff ff ff ff 48 8d b8 28 0c 00 00 e8 d0 cf 41 c3 85 c0 0f 85 2e ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 27 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffa92082387da0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9e5b593d8000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff83dc9a70 RDI: ffffffff83e1a1cf
RBP: ffff9e5b593d8c80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8373a2b3
R10: 000000008100009f R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-39769 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.16.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-39769" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-39769 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.16.4 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.16.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.16.4ステージング環境で 6.16.4 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-39769 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39769 linux Fixed in: 6.16.5-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39769 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org