Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40091)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40091). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.17.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ixgbe: fix too early devlink_free() in ixgbe_remove()

Since ixgbe_adapter is embedded in devlink, calling devlink_free()
prematurely in the ixgbe_remove() path can lead to UAF. Move devlink_free()
to the end.

KASAN report:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000adf813e0 by task bash/2095
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2095 Comm: bash Tainted: G S 6.17.0-rc2-tnguy.net-queue+ #1 PREEMPT(full)
[...]
Call trace:
show_stack+0x30/0x90 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd0
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x90/0x310
print_report+0x104/0x1f0
kasan_report+0x88/0x180
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30
ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe]
ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme+0xf8/0x130 [ixgbe]
ixgbe_remove+0x2d0/0x8c0 [ixgbe]
pci_device_remove+0xa0/0x220
device_remove+0xb8/0x170
device_release_driver_internal+0x318/0x490
device_driver_detach+0x40/0x68
unbind_store+0xec/0x118
drv_attr_store+0x64/0xb8
sysfs_kf_write+0xcc/0x138
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x294/0x440
new_sync_write+0x1fc/0x588
vfs_write+0x480/0x6a0
ksys_write+0xf0/0x1e0
__arm64_sys_write+0x70/0xc0
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xcc/0x280
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x248
do_el0_svc+0x44/0x68
el0_svc+0x54/0x160
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40091 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.17.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40091" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40091 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.17.5 — 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 6.17.5.

🛡️ 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 6.17.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.17.5 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":"6.17.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40091 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40091 linux Fixed in: 6.17.6-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40091 linux-hwe-edge