Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.153-1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 464996

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: tracing: Silence warning when chunk
allocation fails in trace_pid_write Syzkaller trigger a fault injection warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID:
12326 at tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12326 Comm: syz.6.10325
Tainted: G U 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0 Tainted: [U]=USER Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute
Engine RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 kernel/tracepoint.c:294 Code: 09 fe ff 90 0f 0b 90 0f b6
74 24 43 31 ff 41 bc ea ff ff ff RSP: 0018:ffffc9000414fb48 EFLAGS: 00010283 RAX: 00000000000012a1 RBX:
ffffffff8e240ae0 RCX: ffffc90014b78000 RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff81bbd78b RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11:
0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffffffffef R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffff81c264f0
FS: 00007f27217f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000001b2e80dff8 CR3: 00000000268f8000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0:
0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0
DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0xc0/0x110 kernel/tracepoint.c:464
register_trace_prio_sched_switch include/trace/events/sched.h:222 [inline] register_pid_events
kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2354 [inline] event_pid_write.isra.0+0x439/0x7a0
kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2425 vfs_write+0x24c/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:677 ksys_write+0x12b/0x250
fs/read_write.c:731 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250
arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f We can reproduce the warning by
following the steps below: 1. echo 8 >> set_event_notrace_pid. Let tr->filtered_pids owns one pid and
register sched_switch tracepoint. 2. echo ' ' >> set_event_pid, and perform fault injection during chunk
allocation of trace_pid_list_alloc. Let pid_list with no pid and assign to tr->filtered_pids. 3. echo ' '
>> set_event_pid. Let pid_list is NULL and assign to tr->filtered_pids. 4. echo 9 >> set_event_pid, will
trigger the double register sched_switch tracepoint warning. The reason is that syzkaller injects a fault
into the chunk allocation in trace_pid_list_alloc, causing a failure in trace_pid_list_set, which may
trigger double register of the same tracepoint. This only occurs when the system is about to crash, but to
suppress this warning, let's add failure handling logic to trace_pid_list_set. (CVE-2025-39914)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.153-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-39914

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 464996

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.36

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-39914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 10/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-39914