Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71117)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71117). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.18.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store callbacks

Freezing the request queue from inside sysfs store callbacks may cause a
deadlock in combination with the dm-multipath driver and the
queue_if_no_path option. Additionally, freezing the request queue slows
down system boot on systems where sysfs attributes are set synchronously.

Fix this by removing the blk_mq_freeze_queue() / blk_mq_unfreeze_queue()
calls from the store callbacks that do not strictly need these callbacks.
Add the __data_racy annotation to request_queue.rq_timeout to suppress
KCSAN data race reports about the rq_timeout reads.

This patch may cause a small delay in applying the new settings.

For all the attributes affected by this patch, I/O will complete
correctly whether the old or the new value of the attribute is used.

This patch affects the following sysfs attributes:

io_poll_delay
io_timeout
nomerges
read_ahead_kb
rq_affinity

Here is an example of a deadlock triggered by running test srp/002
if this patch is not applied:

task:multipathd
Call Trace:

__schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
schedule+0xdd/0x270
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x30
__mutex_lock+0xb89/0x1650
mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30
dm_table_set_restrictions+0x823/0xdf0
__bind+0x166/0x590
dm_swap_table+0x2a7/0x490
do_resume+0x1b1/0x610
dev_suspend+0x55/0x1a0
ctl_ioctl+0x3a5/0x7e0
dm_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x1a0
x64_sys_call+0…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71117 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-71117" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-71117 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.18.3 — 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 6.18.3.

🛡️ 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 6.18.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.18.3 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":"6.11.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-71117 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71117 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71117 linux-hwe-edge