Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71133)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71133). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

RDMA/irdma: avoid invalid read in irdma_net_event

irdma_net_event() should not dereference anything from "neigh" (alias
"ptr") until it has checked that the event is NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE.
Other events come with different structures pointed to by "ptr" and they
may be smaller than struct neighbour.

Move the read of neigh->dev under the NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE case.

The bug is mostly harmless, but it triggers KASAN on debug kernels:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in irdma_net_event+0x32e/0x3b0 [irdma]
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900075e07f0 by task kworker/27:2/542554

CPU: 27 PID: 542554 Comm: kworker/27:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-630.el9.x86_64+debug #1
Hardware name: [...]
Workqueue: events rt6_probe_deferred
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0xb0
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3f0
print_report+0xb4/0x270
kasan_report+0x92/0xc0
irdma_net_event+0x32e/0x3b0 [irdma]
notifier_call_chain+0x9e/0x180
atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x5c/0x110
rt6_do_redirect+0xb91/0x1080
tcp_v6_err+0xe9b/0x13e0
icmpv6_notify+0x2b2/0x630
ndisc_redirect_rcv+0x328/0x530
icmpv6_rcv+0xc16/0x1360
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xb84/0x12e0
ip6_input_finish+0x117/0x240
ip6_input+0xc4/0x370
ipv6_rcv+0x420/0x7d0
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x118/0x1b0
process_backlog+0xd1/0x5d0
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa3/0x440
net_rx_action+0x78a/0xba0
handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9c0
do_softi…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71133 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-71133" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-71133 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4 — 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 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4.

🛡️ 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 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4 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":"5.14.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.198"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.160"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.120"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.64"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-71133 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.161-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71133 linux Fixed in: 6.1.162-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71133 linux-hwe-edge