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Echo: linux: security update to 6.12.57-1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 455443

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to truncate first page in
 error path of f2fs_truncate() syzbot reports a bug as below: loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to
 40427 F2FS-fs (loop0): Wrong SSA boundary, start(3584) end(4096) blocks(3072) F2FS-fs (loop0): Can't find
 valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock F2FS-fs (loop0): invalid crc value F2FS-fs (loop0):
 f2fs_convert_inline_folio: corrupted inline inode ino=3, i_addr[0]:0x1601, run fsck to fix. ------------[
 cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753! RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753 Call
 Trace: <TASK> evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810 f2fs_fill_super+0x5612/0x6fa0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5047
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692 vfs_get_tree+0x8f/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815
 do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline] __do_sys_mount
 fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324 do_syscall_x64
 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f During f2fs_evict_inode(), clear_inode() detects that we missed
 to truncate all page cache before destorying inode, that is because in below path, we will create page #0
 in cache, but missed to drop it in error path, let's fix it. - evict - f2fs_evict_inode - f2fs_truncate -
 f2fs_convert_inline_inode - f2fs_grab_cache_folio : create page #0 in cache - f2fs_convert_inline_folio :
 sanity check failed, return -EFSCORRUPTED - clear_inode detects that inode->i_data.nrpages is not zero
 (CVE-2025-40137)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.12.57-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-40137

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 455443

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40137