Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40137)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40137). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()

syzbot reports a bug as below:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 40427
F2FS-fs (loop0): Wrong SSA boundary, start(3584) end(4096) blocks(3072)
F2FS-fs (loop0): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock
F2FS-fs (loop0): invalid crc value
F2FS-fs (loop0): f2fs_convert_inline_folio: corrupted inline inode ino=3, i_addr[0]:0x1601, run fsck to fix.
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753!
RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753
Call Trace:

evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
f2fs_fill_super+0x5612/0x6fa0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5047
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692
vfs_get_tree+0x8f/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815
do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324
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

During f2fs_evict_inode(), clear_inode() detects that we missed to truncate
all page cache before destorying inode, that is because in below path, we
will create page #0 in cache, but missed to drop it in error path, let's fix
it.

evict
f2fs_evict_inode
f2fs_truncate
f2fs_convert_inline_inode
- f2fs_grab_cache_folio
: create page #0 in…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40137 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40137" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40137 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"3.19.0"},{"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-2025-40137 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40137 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40137 linux