Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-68231)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-68231). 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:
mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM
The kernel test has reported:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffba000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
*pde = 03171067 *pte = 00000000
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G T 6.18.0-rc2-00031-gec7f31b2a2d3 #1 NONE a1d066dfe789f54bc7645c7989957d2bdee593ca
Tainted: [T]=RANDSTRUCT
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
EIP: memset (arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:168 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_32.c:17)
Code: a5 8b 4d f4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 83 c4 04 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 73 41 01 00 90 90 90 3e 8d 74 26 00 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 89 d0 89 f7 aa 89 f0 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 53 41 01 00 cc cc cc 55 89 e5 53 57 56
EAX: 0000006b EBX: 00000015 ECX: 001fefff EDX: 0000006b
ESI: fffb9000 EDI: fffba000 EBP: c611fbf0 ESP: c611fbe8
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010287
CR0: 80050033 CR2: fffba000 CR3: 0316e000 CR4: 00040690
Call Trace:
poison_element (mm/mempool.c:83 mm/mempool.c:102)
mempool_init_node (mm/mempool.c:142 mm/mempool.c:226)
mempool_init_noprof (mm/mempool.c:250 (discriminator 1))
? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640)
bio_integrity_initfn (block/bio-integrity.c:483 (discriminator 8))
? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640)
do_one…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-68231 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-2025-68231" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-68231 (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-2025-68231 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.159-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68231 linux
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68231 linux-aws
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org