Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-40357)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-40357). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix general protection fault in __smc_diag_dump
The syzbot report a crash:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd5a5d5a0000003: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead4ead00000018-0xdead4ead0000001f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6949 Comm: syz.0.335 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:smc_diag_msg_common_fill net/smc/smc_diag.c:44 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__smc_diag_dump.constprop.0+0x3ca/0x2550 net/smc/smc_diag.c:89
Call Trace:
smc_diag_dump_proto+0x26d/0x420 net/smc/smc_diag.c:217
smc_diag_dump+0x27/0x90 net/smc/smc_diag.c:234
netlink_dump+0x539/0xd30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2327
__netlink_dump_start+0x6d6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2442
netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:341 [inline]
smc_diag_handler_dump+0x1f9/0x240 net/smc/smc_diag.c:251
__sock_diag_cmd net/core/sock_diag.c:249 [inline]
sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x438/0x790 net/core/sock_diag.c:285
netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x5a7/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
netlink_sendmsg+0x8d1/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:729 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40357 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2025-40357" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-40357 (Linux kernel)
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 Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
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. Audit SBOM/dependencies 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
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-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-2025-40357 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.57-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40357 linux Fixed in: 6.12.57-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40357 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