Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71232)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-71232). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash

System crash seen during load/unload test in a loop,

[61110.449331] qla2xxx [0000:27:00.0]-0042:0: Disabled MSI-X.
[61110.467494] =============================================================================
[61110.467498] BUG qla2xxx_srbs (Tainted: G OE -------- --- ): Objects remaining in qla2xxx_srbs on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
[61110.467501] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[61110.467502] Slab 0x000000000ffc8162 objects=51 used=1 fp=0x00000000e25d3d85 flags=0x57ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[61110.467509] CPU: 53 PID: 455206 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE -------- --- 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 #1
[61110.467513] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus v2/ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus v2, BIOS A42 08/17/2023
[61110.467515] Call Trace:
[61110.467516]
[61110.467519] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
[61110.467526] slab_err.cold+0x53/0x67
[61110.467534] __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x16e/0x320
[61110.467540] kmem_cache_destroy+0x51/0x160
[61110.467544] qla2x00_module_exit+0x93/0x99 [qla2xxx]
[61110.467607] ? __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x178/0x280
[61110.467613] ? syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x145/0x1d0
[61110.467616] ? do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90
[61110.467619] ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x150
[61110.467622] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwfram…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71232 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-71232" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-71232 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1 — 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 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1.

🛡️ 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 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1 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":"4.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.251"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.201"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.164"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.125"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.72"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.19.1"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-71232 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.164-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71232 linux Fixed in: 5.10.251-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71232 linux-hwe-edge