Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40115)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40115). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 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:

scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()

During mpt3sas_transport_port_remove(), messages were logged with
dev_printk() against &mpt3sas_port->port->dev. At this point the SAS
transport device may already be partially unregistered or freed, leading
to a crash when accessing its struct device.

Using ioc_info(), which logs via the PCI device (ioc->pdev->dev),
guaranteed to remain valid until driver removal.

[83428.295776] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6f702f323a33312d: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[83428.295785] CPU: 145 UID: 0 PID: 113296 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.16.0-rc1+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[83428.295792] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[83428.295795] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7875 Tower/, BIOS 89.1.67 02/23/2024
[83428.295799] RIP: 0010:__dev_printk+0x1f/0x70
[83428.295805] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 d1 48 85 f6 74 52 4c 8b 46 50 4d 85 c0 74 1f 48 8b 46 68 48 85 c0 74 22 <48> 8b 08 0f b6 7f 01 48 c7 c2 db e8 42 ad 83 ef 30 e9 7b f8 ff ff
[83428.295813] RSP: 0018:ff85aeafc3137bb0 EFLAGS: 00010206
[83428.295817] RAX: 6f702f323a33312d RBX: ff4290ee81292860 RCX: 5000cca25103be32
[83428.295820] RDX: ff85aeafc3137bb8 RSI: ff4290eeb1966c00 RDI: ffffffffc1560845
[83428.295823] RBP: ff85aeafc3137c18 R08: 74726f702f303a33 R09: ff85aeafc3137bb8
[83428.295826] R10: ff8…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40115 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40115" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40115 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 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 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 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 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 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":"3.8.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.301"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.246"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.195"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.156"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.112"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"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-2025-40115 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.156-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40115 linux Fixed in: 5.10.247-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40115 linux