Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40246)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40246). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.60, 6.17.10 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair
xfs/286 produced this report on my test fleet:
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BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110
Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff88843fe9e038 (184B right of kfence-#184):
memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110
xrep_symlink_salvage_inline+0xb3/0xf0 [xfs]
xrep_symlink_salvage+0x100/0x110 [xfs]
xrep_symlink+0x2e/0x80 [xfs]
xrep_attempt+0x61/0x1f0 [xfs]
xfs_scrub_metadata+0x34f/0x5c0 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x387/0x560 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xe23/0x10e0 [xfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
kfence-#184: 0xffff88843fe9df80-0xffff88843fe9dfea, size=107, cache=kmalloc-128
allocated by task 3470 on cpu 1 at 263329.131592s (192823.508886s ago):
xfs_init_local_fork+0x79/0xe0 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_local+0xa4/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_data_fork+0x148/0x180 [xfs]
xfs_inode_from_disk+0x2cd/0x480 [xfs]
xfs_iget+0x450/0xd60 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_one_int+0x6b/0x510 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_iwalk+0x1e/0x30 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag_recs+0xdf/0x150 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_run_callbacks+0xb9/0x190 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag+0x1dc/0x2f0 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_args.constprop.0+0x6a/0x120 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk+0xa4/0xd0 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat+0xfa/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_fsbulkstat.isra.0+0x13a/0x230 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xbf2/0x10e0 [xfs]
_x64_sys…
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40246 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.60, 6.17.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40246" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-40246 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.60, 6.17.10 — 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 6.12.60, 6.17.10.
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 6.12.60, 6.17.10ステージング環境で 6.12.60, 6.17.10 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-2025-40246 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.61-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40246 linux Fixed in: 6.12.63-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40246 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org