Echo: linux: security update to 6.12.27-1

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 462874

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: fs/ntfs3: Keep write operations atomic
syzbot reported a NULL pointer dereference in __generic_file_write_iter. [1] Before the write operation is
completed, the user executes ioctl[2] to clear the compress flag of the file, which causes the
is_compressed() judgment to return 0, further causing the program to enter the wrong process and call the
wrong ops ntfs_aops_cmpr, which triggers the null pointer dereference of write_begin. Use inode lock to
synchronize ioctl and write to avoid this case. [1] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000000000000 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000086000006 EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL
= 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault user pgtable: 4k pages,
48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000011896d000 [0000000000000000] pgd=0800000118b44403, p4d=0800000118b44403,
pud=0800000117517403, pmd=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules
linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6427 Comm: syz-executor347 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-g573067a5a685 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 pstate: 80400005
(Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : 0x0 lr : generic_perform_write+0x29c/0x868
mm/filemap.c:4055 sp : ffff80009d4978a0 x29: ffff80009d4979c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff80009d497bc8
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff80009d497960 x24: ffff80008ba71c68 x23: 0000000000000000 x22:
ffff0000c655dac0 x21: 0000000000001000 x20: 000000000000000c x19: 1ffff00013a92f2c x18: ffff0000e183aa1c
x17: 0004060000000014 x16: ffff800083275834 x15: 0000000000000001 x14: 0000000000000000 x13:
0000000000000001 x12: ffff0000c655dac0 x11: 0000000000ff0100 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : ffff80009d497980 x4 :
ffff80009d497960 x3 : 0000000000001000 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000e183a928 x0 : ffff0000d60b0fc0
Call trace: 0x0 (P) __generic_file_write_iter+0xfc/0x204 mm/filemap.c:4156
ntfs_file_write_iter+0x54c/0x630 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1267 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:586 [inline]
vfs_write+0x920/0xcf4 fs/read_write.c:679 ksys_write+0x15c/0x26c fs/read_write.c:731 __do_sys_write
fs/read_write.c:742 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:739 [inline] __arm64_sys_write+0x7c/0x90
fs/read_write.c:739 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8
arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151 el0_svc+0x54/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-
common.c:744 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762 [2]
ioctl$FS_IOC_SETFLAGS(r0, 0x40086602, &(0x7f00000000c0)=0x20) (CVE-2025-37806)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.12.27-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-37806

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 462874

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.2

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-2025-37806

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: 9/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-37806