Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40295)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40295). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.17.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fscrypt: fix left shift underflow when inode->i_blkbits > PAGE_SHIFT

When simulating an nvme device on qemu with both logical_block_size and
physical_block_size set to 8 KiB, an error trace appears during
partition table reading at boot time. The issue is caused by
inode->i_blkbits being larger than PAGE_SHIFT, which leads to a left
shift of -1 and triggering a UBSAN warning.

[ 2.697306] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2.697309] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c:336:37
[ 2.697311] shift exponent -1 is negative
[ 2.697315] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 274 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2+ #34 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 2.697317] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 2.697320] Call Trace:
[ 2.697324]
[ 2.697325] dump_stack_lvl+0x76/0xa0
[ 2.697340] dump_stack+0x10/0x20
[ 2.697342] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e3/0x390
[ 2.697351] bh_get_inode_and_lblk_num.cold+0x12/0x94
[ 2.697359] fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh+0x44/0x90
[ 2.697365] submit_bh_wbc+0xb6/0x190
[ 2.697370] block_read_full_folio+0x194/0x270
[ 2.697371] ? __pfx_blkdev_get_block+0x10/0x10
[ 2.697375] ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10
[ 2.697377] blkdev_read_folio+0x18/0x30
[ 2.697379] filemap_read_folio+0x40/0xe0
[ 2.697382] filemap_get_pages+0x5ef/0x7a0
[ 2.697385]…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40295 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.17.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40295" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40295 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.17.8 — 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 6.17.8.

🛡️ 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 6.17.8
```
ステージング環境で 6.17.8 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":"6.17.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40295 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40295 linux Fixed in: 6.17.8-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40295 linux-hwe-edge