Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39974)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39974). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.16.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

tracing/osnoise: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in _parse_integer_limit()

When config osnoise cpus by write() syscall, the following KASAN splat may
be observed:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _parse_integer_limit+0x103/0x130
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88810121e3a1 by task test/447
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 447 Comm: test Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6-dirty #288 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70
print_report+0xcb/0x610
kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
_parse_integer_limit+0x103/0x130
bitmap_parselist+0x16d/0x6f0
osnoise_cpus_write+0x116/0x2d0
vfs_write+0x21e/0xcc0
ksys_write+0xee/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xa8/0x2a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

This issue can be reproduced by below code:

const char *cpulist = "1";
int fd=open("/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/osnoise/cpus", O_WRONLY);
write(fd, cpulist, strlen(cpulist));

Function bitmap_parselist() was called to parse cpulist, it require that
the parameter 'buf' must be terminated with a '\0' or '\n'. Fix this issue
by adding a '\0' to 'buf' in osnoise_cpus_write().

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-39974 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.16.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-39974" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-39974 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.16.10 — 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 6.16.10.

🛡️ 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 6.16.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.16.10 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":"6.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.16.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-39974 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39974 linux Fixed in: 6.16.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39974 linux-hwe-edge