Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71200)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71200). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mmc: sdhci-of-dwcmshc: Prevent illegal clock reduction in HS200/HS400 mode

When operating in HS200 or HS400 timing modes, reducing the clock frequency
below 52MHz will lead to link broken as the Rockchip DWC MSHC controller
requires maintaining a minimum clock of 52MHz in these modes.

Add a check to prevent illegal clock reduction through debugfs:

root@debian:/# echo 50000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/clock
root@debian:/# [ 30.090146] mmc0: running CQE recovery
mmc0: cqhci: Failed to halt
mmc0: cqhci: spurious TCN for tag 0
WARNING: drivers/mmc/host/cqhci-core.c:797 at cqhci_irq+0x254/0x818, CPU#1: kworker/1:0H/24
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/1:0H Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1-00001-g09db0998649d-dirty #204 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Rockchip RK3588 EVB1 V10 Board (DT)
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
pstate: 604000c9 (nZCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : cqhci_irq+0x254/0x818
lr : cqhci_irq+0x254/0x818
...

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71200 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-71200" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-71200 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 — 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 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8.

🛡️ 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 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 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":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.162"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.122"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.68"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-71200 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.163-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71200 linux Fixed in: 6.1.162-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71200 linux-hwe-edge