Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40247)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40247). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.17.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/msm: Fix pgtable prealloc error path

The following splat was reported:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000004
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000008d0fd8000
[0000000000000010] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1]  SMP
CPU: 5 UID: 1000 PID: 149076 Comm: Xwayland Tainted: G S                  6.16.0-rc2-00809-g0b6974bb4134-dirty #367 PREEMPT
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. SM8650 HDK (DT)
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : build_detached_freelist+0x28/0x224
lr : kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x38/0x244
sp : ffff000a508c7a20
x29: ffff000a508c7a20 x28: ffff000a508c7d50 x27: ffffc4e49d16f350
x26: 0000000000000058 x25: 00000000fffffffc x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff00098c4e1450 x22: 00000000fffffffc x21: 0000000000000000
x20: ffff000a508c7af8 x19: 0000000000000002 x18: 00000000000003e8
x17: ffff000809523850 x16: ffff0…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40247 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.17.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40247" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40247 (Kernel)
Patched: 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.

❓ 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 6.17.10.

🛡️ 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 6.17.10
```
ステージング環境で 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。
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":"3.12.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40247 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40247 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40247 linux