Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40023)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40023). 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:

drm/xe/vf: Don't expose sysfs attributes not applicable for VFs

VFs can't read BMG_PCIE_CAP(0x138340) register nor access PCODE
(already guarded by the info.skip_pcode flag) so we shouldn't
expose attributes that require any of them to avoid errors like:

[] xe 0000:03:00.1: [drm] Tile0: GT0: VF is trying to read an
inaccessible register 0x138340+0x0
[] RIP: 0010:xe_gt_sriov_vf_read32+0x6c2/0x9a0 [xe]
[] Call Trace:
[] xe_mmio_read32+0x110/0x280 [xe]
[] auto_link_downgrade_capable_show+0x2e/0x70 [xe]
[] dev_attr_show+0x1a/0x70
[] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xaa/0x120
[] kernfs_seq_show+0x41/0x60

(cherry picked from commit a2d6223d224f333f705ed8495bf8bebfbc585c35)

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40023 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-2025-40023" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40023 (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-2025-40023 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40023 linux Fixed in: 6.16.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40023 linux-hwe-edge