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Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.147-1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 461557

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: drm/i915/gt: Fix timeline left held on
 VMA alloc error The following error has been reported sporadically by CI when a test unbinds the i915
 driver on a ring submission platform: <4> [239.330153] ------------[ cut here ]------------ <4>
 [239.330166] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] drm_WARN_ON(dev_priv->mm.shrink_count) <4> [239.330196] WARNING:
 CPU: 1 PID: 18570 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c:1309 i915_gem_cleanup_early+0x13e/0x150 [i915] ...
 <4> [239.330640] RIP: 0010:i915_gem_cleanup_early+0x13e/0x150 [i915] ... <4> [239.330942] Call Trace: <4>
 [239.330944] <TASK> <4> [239.330949] i915_driver_late_release+0x2b/0xa0 [i915] <4> [239.331202]
 i915_driver_release+0x86/0xa0 [i915] <4> [239.331482] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x61/0x90 <4> [239.331494]
 devm_action_release+0x15/0x30 <4> [239.331504] release_nodes+0x3d/0x120 <4> [239.331517]
 devres_release_all+0x96/0xd0 <4> [239.331533] device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0x80 <4> [239.331543]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x23a/0x280 <4> [239.331550] ? bus_find_device+0xa5/0xe0 <4> [239.331563]
 device_driver_detach+0x14/0x20 ... <4> [357.719679] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- If the test also
 unloads the i915 module then that's followed with: <3> [357.787478]
 ============================================================================= <3> [357.788006] BUG
 i915_vma (Tainted: G U W N ): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown() <3> [357.788031]
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <3> [357.788204] Object
 0xffff888109e7f480 @offset=29824 <3> [357.788670] Allocated in i915_vma_instance+0xee/0xc10 [i915]
 age=292729 cpu=4 pid=2244 <4> [357.788994] i915_vma_instance+0xee/0xc10 [i915] <4> [357.789290]
 init_status_page+0x7b/0x420 [i915] <4> [357.789532] intel_engines_init+0x1d8/0x980 [i915] <4> [357.789772]
 intel_gt_init+0x175/0x450 [i915] <4> [357.790014] i915_gem_init+0x113/0x340 [i915] <4> [357.790281]
 i915_driver_probe+0x847/0xed0 [i915] <4> [357.790504] i915_pci_probe+0xe6/0x220 [i915] ... Closer analysis
 of CI results history has revealed a dependency of the error on a few IGT tests, namely: -
 igt@api_intel_allocator@fork-simple-stress-signal, - igt@api_intel_allocator@two-level-inception-
 interruptible, - igt@gem_linear_blits@interruptible, - igt@prime_mmap_coherency@ioctl-errors, which
 invisibly trigger the issue, then exhibited with first driver unbind attempt. All of the above tests
 perform actions which are actively interrupted with signals. Further debugging has allowed to narrow that
 scope down to DRM_IOCTL_I915_GEM_EXECBUFFER2, and ring_context_alloc(), specific to ring submission, in
 particular. If successful then that function, or its execlists or GuC submission equivalent, is supposed
 to be called only once per GEM context engine, followed by raise of a flag that prevents the function from
 being called again. The function is expected to unwind its internal errors itself, so it may be safely
 called once more after it returns an error. In case of ring submission, the function first gets a
 reference to the engine's legacy timeline and then allocates a VMA. If the VMA allocation fails, e.g. when
 i915_vma_instance() called from inside is interrupted with a signal, then ring_context_alloc() fails,
 leaving the timeline held referenced. On next I915_GEM_EXECBUFFER2 IOCTL, another reference to the
 timeline is got, and only that last one is put on successful completion. As a consequence, the legacy
 timeline, with its underlying engine status page's VMA object, is still held and not released on driver
 unbind. Get the legacy timeline only after successful allocation of the context engine's VMA. v2: Add a
 note on other submission methods (Krzysztof Karas): Both execlists and GuC submission use lrc_alloc()
 which seems free from a similar issue. (cherry picked from commit
 cc43422b3cc79eacff4c5a8ba0d224688ca9dd4f) (CVE-2025-38389)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.147-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-38389

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 461557

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.16

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38389

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: 9/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-38389