Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40208)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40208). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.17.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: iris: fix module removal if firmware download failed
Fix remove if firmware failed to load:
qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: Direct firmware load for qcom/vpu/vpu33_p4.mbn failed with error -2
qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: firmware download failed
qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: core init failed
then:
$ echo aa00000.video-codec > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/qcom-iris/unbind
Triggers:
genpd genpd:1:aa00000.video-codec: Runtime PM usage count underflow!
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video_cc_mvs0_clk already disabled
WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1206 at clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac, CPU#1: sh/542
pc : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac
lr : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac
Call trace:
clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac (P)
clk_disable+0x30/0x4c
iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris]
iris_vpu_power_off_hw+0x48/0x58 [qcom_iris]
iris_vpu33_power_off_hardware+0x44/0x230 [qcom_iris]
iris_vpu_power_off+0x34/0x84 [qcom_iris]
iris_core_deinit+0x44/0xc8 [qcom_iris]
iris_remove+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris]
platform_remove+0x20/0x30
device_remove+0x4c/0x80
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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video_cc_mvs0_clk already unprepared
WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1065 at clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110, CPU#2: sh/542
pc : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110
lr : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110
Call trace:
clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 (P)
clk_unprepare+0x2c/0x44
iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40208 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.17.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40208" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-40208 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.17.4 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.17.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.17.4ステージング環境で 6.17.4 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40208 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40208 linux Fixed in: 6.17.6-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40208 linux
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org