Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39784)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39784). 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:

PCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure

When pcie_failed_link_retrain() fails to retrain, it tries to revert to the
previous link speed. However it calculates that speed from the Link
Control 2 register without masking out non-speed bits first.

PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() converts such incorrect values to
PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN (0xff), which in turn causes a WARN splat in
pcie_set_target_speed():

pci 0000:00:01.1: [1022:14ed] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe Root Port
pci 0000:00:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
pci 0000:00:01.1: retraining failed
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/pci/pcie/bwctrl.c:168 pcie_set_target_speed
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: ffff9acd82efa000
pcie_failed_link_retrain
pci_device_add
pci_scan_single_device

Mask out the non-speed bits in PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() and
PCIE_LNKCAP_SLS2SPEED() so they don't incorrectly return PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN.

[bhelgaas: commit log, add details from https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c92ef6bcb314ee6977839b46b393282e4f52e74.1750684771.git.lukas@wunner.de]

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-39784 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-2025-39784" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-39784 (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.

❓ 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 6.16.4.

🛡️ 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 6.16.4
```
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。
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":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.16.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-39784 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39784 linux Fixed in: 6.16.5-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39784 linux-hwe-edge