Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39984)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-39984). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.50, 6.16.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: tun: Update napi->skb after XDP process

The syzbot report a UAF issue:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_reset_mac_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3150 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in napi_frags_skb net/core/gro.c:723 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in napi_gro_frags+0x6e/0x1030 net/core/gro.c:758
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802ef22c18 by task syz.0.17/6079
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6079 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
skb_reset_mac_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3150 [inline]
napi_frags_skb net/core/gro.c:723 [inline]
napi_gro_frags+0x6e/0x1030 net/core/gro.c:758
tun_get_user+0x28cb/0x3e20 drivers/net/tun.c:1920
tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:1996
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Allocated by task 6079:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
unpoison_slab_object mm…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-39984 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.50, 6.16.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-39984" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-39984 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.50, 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 6.12.50, 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 6.12.50, 6.16.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.50, 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":"6.9.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.50"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.16.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-39984 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.51-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39984 linux Fixed in: 6.12.57-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39984 linux-hwe-edge