Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40037)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40037). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.53, 6.17.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()

The pm_domain cleanup can not be devres managed as it uses struct
simplefb_par which is allocated within struct fb_info by
framebuffer_alloc(). This allocation is explicitly freed by
unregister_framebuffer() in simplefb_remove().
Devres managed cleanup runs after the device remove call and thus can no
longer access struct simplefb_par.
Call simplefb_detach_genpds() explicitly from simplefb_destroy() like
the cleanup functions for clocks and regulators.

Fixes an use after free on M2 Mac mini during
aperture_remove_conflicting_devices() using the downstream asahi kernel
with Debian's kernel config. For unknown reasons this started to
consistently dereference an invalid pointer in v6.16.3 based kernels.

[ 6.736134] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220
[ 6.743545] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8000304743f0 by task (udev-worker)/227
[ 6.750697]
[ 6.752182] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 227 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S 6.16.3-asahi+ #16 PREEMPTLAZY
[ 6.752186] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
[ 6.752187] Hardware name: Apple Mac mini (M2, 2023) (DT)
[ 6.752189] Call trace:
[ 6.752190] show_stack+0x34/0x98 (C)
[ 6.752194] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
[ 6.752197] print_report+0x17c/0x4d8
[ 6.752201] kasan_report+0xb4/0x100
[ 6.752206] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x30
[ 6.…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40037 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.53, 6.17.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40037" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40037 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.53, 6.17.3 — 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 6.12.53, 6.17.3.

🛡️ 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 6.12.53, 6.17.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.53, 6.17.3 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":"6.8.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.53"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40037 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.53-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40037 linux Fixed in: 6.12.57-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40037 linux-hwe-edge