Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40265)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40265). 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:

vfat: fix missing sb_min_blocksize() return value checks

When emulating an nvme device on qemu with both logical_block_size and
physical_block_size set to 8 KiB, but without format, a kernel panic
was triggered during the early boot stage while attempting to mount a
vfat filesystem.

[95553.682035] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.684326] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.686501] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.696448] ISOFS: unsupported/invalid hardware sector size 8192
[95553.697117] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[95553.697567] kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1582!
[95553.697984] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[95553.698602] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7212 Comm: mount Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2+ #38 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[95553.699511] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[95553.700534] RIP: 0010:folio_alloc_buffers+0x1bb/0x1c0
[95553.701018] Code: 48 8b 15 e8 93 18 02 65 48 89 35 e0 93 18 02 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b 90 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f
[95553.702648] RSP: 0018:ffffd1b0c676f990 EFLAGS: 00010246
[95553.703132] RAX: ffff8cfc4176d820 RBX: 0000000000508c48 RCX: 0000000000000001
[95553.703805] RDX: 0000000000002000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[95553.7044…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40265 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-2025-40265" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40265 (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":"6.15.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40265 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40265 linux Fixed in: 6.17.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40265 linux-hwe-edge