VDB-297771 · CVE-2025-21725 · Nessus 232678

Linux Kernel up to 6.1.128/6.6.75/6.12.12/6.13.1 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.128/6.6.75/6.12.12/6.13.1. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-21725. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.128/6.6.75/6.12.12/6.13.1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix oops due to unset link speed It isn't guaranteed that NETWORK_INTERFACE_INFO::LinkSpeed will always be set by the server, so the client must handle any values and then prevent oopses like below from happening: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1323 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa45/0x1460 [cifs] Code: 00 00 48 89 df e8 3b cd 1b c1 41 f6 44 24 2c 04 0f 84 50 01 00 00 48 89 ef e8 e7 d0 1b c1 49 8b 44 24 18 31 d2 49 8d 7c 24 28 f7 74 24 18 48 89 c3 e8 6e cf 1b c1 41 8b 6c 24 28 49 8d 7c 24 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001817be0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88811230022c RCX: ffffffffc041bd99 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000567 RDI: ffff888112300228 RBP: ffff888112300218 R08: fffff52000302f5f R09: ffffed1022fa58ac R10: ffff888117d2c566 R11: 00000000fffffffe R12: ffff888112300200 R13: 000000012a15343f R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff888113f2db58 FS: 00007fe27119e740(0000) GS:ffff888148600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fe2633c5000 CR3: 0000000124da0000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27 ? die+0x2e/0x50 ? do_trap+0x159/0x1b0 ? cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa45/0x1460 [cifs] ? do_error_trap+0x90/0x130 ? cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa45/0x1460 [cifs] ? exc_divide_error+0x39/0x50 ? cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa45/0x1460 [cifs] ? asm_exc_divide_error+0x1a/0x20 ? cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa39/0x1460 [cifs] ? cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0xa45/0x1460 [cifs] ? seq_read_iter+0x42e/0x790 seq_read_iter+0x19a/0x790 proc_reg_read_iter+0xbe/0x110 ? __pfx_proc_reg_read_iter+0x10/0x10 vfs_read+0x469/0x570 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x398/0x760 ? __pfx_vfs_read+0x10/0x10 ? find_held_lock+0x8a/0xa0 ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10 ksys_read+0xd3/0x170 ? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10 ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x50/0x270 ? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fe271288911 Code: 00 48 8b 15 01 25 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bd e8 20 ad 01 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d b5 a7 10 00 00 74 13 31 c0 0f 05 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 4f c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec RSP: 002b:00007ffe87c079d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000040000 RCX: 00007fe271288911 RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: 00007fe2633c6000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffe87c07a00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fe2713e6380 R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000040000 R13: 00007fe2633c6000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000 Fix this by setting cifs_server_iface::speed to a sane value (1Gbps) by default when link speed is unset.

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-21725 since 12/29/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232678 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0847-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.129, 6.6.76, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 or 6.14-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 208e102a2fca44e40a6c3f7b9e2609cfd17a15aa/3f901c35e1a1b3ed1b528a17ffdb941aa0294458/699179dfc8d7da457b152ca5d18ae45f9ed9beaa/ad3b49fbdb156aa8ee2026ba590642c9b5a410f2/be7a6a77669588bfa5022a470989702bbbb11e7f is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (232678) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0453). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

Google Container-Optimized OS
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu Linux
SUSE Linux
Oracle Linux
Siemens SIMATIC S7
RESF Rocky Linux
Dell NetWorker
Dell Avamar
Red Hat OpenShift
IBM QRadar SIEM
SolarWinds Security Event Manager
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
Open Source Linux Kernel
IBM DataPower Gateway
Dell Secure Connect Gateway
Dell PowerScale OneFS
Dell ECS

Productinfo

Type

Operating System

Vendor

Linux

Name

Kernel

Version

License

open-source

Website

Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
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