Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40351)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-40351). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()

The syzbot reported issue in hfsplus_delete_cat():

[ 70.682285][ T9333] =====================================================
[ 70.682943][ T9333] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220
[ 70.683640][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220
[ 70.684141][ T9333] hfsplus_delete_cat+0x105d/0x12b0
[ 70.684621][ T9333] hfsplus_rmdir+0x13d/0x310
[ 70.685048][ T9333] vfs_rmdir+0x5ba/0x810
[ 70.685447][ T9333] do_rmdir+0x964/0xea0
[ 70.685833][ T9333] __x64_sys_rmdir+0x71/0xb0
[ 70.686260][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0xcd8/0x3cf0
[ 70.686695][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0
[ 70.687119][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 70.687646][ T9333]
[ 70.687856][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:
[ 70.688311][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_inc+0x1c2/0x1d0
[ 70.688779][ T9333] hfsplus_create_cat+0x148e/0x1800
[ 70.689231][ T9333] hfsplus_mknod+0x27f/0x600
[ 70.689730][ T9333] hfsplus_mkdir+0x5a/0x70
[ 70.690146][ T9333] vfs_mkdir+0x483/0x7a0
[ 70.690545][ T9333] do_mkdirat+0x3f2/0xd30
[ 70.690944][ T9333] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x9a/0xf0
[ 70.691380][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2f89/0x3cf0
[ 70.691816][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0
[ 70.692229][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 70.692773][ T9333]
[ 70.692990][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:
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Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40351 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-40351" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-40351 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6 — 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 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6.

🛡️ 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 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.196, 6.1.158, 6.6.115, 6.12.56, 6.17.6 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":"3.14.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.301"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.246"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.196"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.158"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.115"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.56"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-40351 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.158-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40351 linux Fixed in: 5.10.247-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40351 linux