Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-71293)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-71293). 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:
drm/amdgpu/ras: Move ras data alloc before bad page check
In the rare event if eeprom has only invalid address entries,
allocation is skipped, this causes following NULL pointer issue
[ 547.103445] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[ 547.118897] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 547.130292] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 547.141689] PGD 124757067 P4D 0
[ 547.148842] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 547.158504] CPU: 49 PID: 8167 Comm: cat Tainted: G OE 6.8.0-38-generic #38-Ubuntu
[ 547.177998] Hardware name: Supermicro AS -8126GS-TNMR/H14DSG-OD, BIOS 1.7 09/12/2025
[ 547.195178] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_ras_sysfs_badpages_read+0x2f2/0x5d0 [amdgpu]
[ 547.210375] Code: e8 63 78 82 c0 45 31 d2 45 3b 75 08 48 8b 45 a0 73 44 44 89 f1 48 8b 7d 88 48 89 ca 48 c1 e2 05 48 29 ca 49 8b 4d 00 48 01 d1 <48> 83 79 10 00 74 17 49 63 f2 48 8b 49 08 41 83 c2 01 48 8d 34 76
[ 547.252045] RSP: 0018:ffa0000067287ac0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 547.263636] RAX: ff11000167c28130 RBX: ff11000127600000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 547.279467] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ff11000125b1c800
[ 547.295298] RBP: ffa0000067287b50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 547.311129] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 547.326959] R13: ff11000217b1de00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000092
[ 547.342790] FS: 000…
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71293 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2025-71293" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-71293 (Linux kernel) — CWE-476 / CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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 (CWE-476) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). 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-2025-71293 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71293 linux Fixed in: 6.19.6-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71293 linux
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web github.com