Linux Kernel up to 6.6.116/6.12.57/6.17.7 riscv walk_stackframe out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.116/6.12.57/6.17.7. Affected by this issue is the function walk_stackframe of the component riscv. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-40358. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.116/6.12.57/6.17.7 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function walk_stackframe of the component riscv. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: stacktrace: Disable KASAN checks for non-current tasks Unwinding the stack of a task other than current, KASAN would report "BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe+0x41c/0x460" There is a same issue on x86 and has been resolved by the commit 84936118bdf3 ("x86/unwind: Disable KASAN checks for non-current tasks") The solution could be applied to RISC-V too. This patch also can solve the issue: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/23 [[email protected]: clean up checkpatch issues]

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-40358 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 298897 (Ubuntu 25.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8029-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.6.117, 6.12.58 or 6.17.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f34ba22989da61186f30a40b6a82e0b3337b96fc/27379fcc15a10d3e3780fe79ba3fc7ed1ccd78e2/2c8d2b53866fb229b438296526ef0fa5a990e5e5/060ea84a484e852b52b938f234bf9b5503a6c910 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 (298897) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2868). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.6.116
• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
• 6.12.7
• 6.12.8
• 6.12.9
• 6.12.10
• 6.12.11
• 6.12.12
• 6.12.13
• 6.12.14
• 6.12.15
• 6.12.16
• 6.12.17
• 6.12.18
• 6.12.19
• 6.12.20
• 6.12.21
• 6.12.22
• 6.12.23
• 6.12.24
• 6.12.25
• 6.12.26
• 6.12.27
• 6.12.28
• 6.12.29
• 6.12.30
• 6.12.31
• 6.12.32
• 6.12.33
• 6.12.34
• 6.12.35
• 6.12.36
• 6.12.37
• 6.12.38
• 6.12.39
• 6.12.40
• 6.12.41
• 6.12.42
• 6.12.43
• 6.12.44
• 6.12.45
• 6.12.46
• 6.12.47
• 6.12.48
• 6.12.49
• 6.12.50
• 6.12.51
• 6.12.52
• 6.12.53
• 6.12.54
• 6.12.55
• 6.12.56
• 6.12.57
• 6.17.0
• 6.17.1
• 6.17.2
• 6.17.3
• 6.17.4
• 6.17.5
• 6.17.6
• 6.17.7

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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