Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In January 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/dp_mst: Fix resetting msg rx state after topology removal
If the MST topology is removed during the reception of an MST down reply
or MST up request sideband message, the
drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr::up_req_recv/down_rep_recv states could be reset
from one thread via drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_set_mst(false), racing with
the reading/parsing of the message from another thread via
drm_dp_mst_handle_down_rep() or drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req(). The race is
possible since the reader/parser doesn't hold any lock while accessing
the reception state. This in turn can lead to a memory corruption in the
reader/parser as described by commit bd2fccac61b4 ("drm/dp_mst: Fix MST
sideband message body length check").
Fix the above by resetting the message reception state if needed before
reading/parsing a message. Another solution would be to hold the
drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr::lock for the whole duration of the message
reception/parsing in drm_dp_mst_handle_down_rep() and
drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req(), however this would require a bigger change.
Since the fix is also needed for stable, opting for the simpler solution
in this patch.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: imx6: Fix suspend/resume support on i.MX6QDL
The suspend/resume functionality is currently broken on the i.MX6QDL
platform, as documented in the NXP errata (ERR005723):
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/errata/IMX6DQCE.pdf
This patch addresses the issue by sharing most of the suspend/resume
sequences used by other i.MX devices, while avoiding modifications to
critical registers that disrupt the PCIe functionality. It targets the
same problem as the following downstream commit:
https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/commit/4e92355e1f79d225ea842511fcfd42b343b32995
Unlike the downstream commit, this patch also resets the connected PCIe
device if possible. Without this reset, certain drivers, such as ath10k
or iwlwifi, will crash on resume. The device reset is also done by the
driver on other i.MX platforms, making this patch consistent with
existing practices.
Upon resuming, the kernel will hang and display an error. Here's an
example of the error encountered with the ath10k driver:
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3hot to D0, device inaccessible
Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x0106f944
Without this patch, suspend/resume will fail on i.MX6QDL devices if a
PCIe device is connected.
[kwilczynski: commit log, added tag for stable releases]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/entry: Mark IRQ entries to fix stack depot warnings
The stack depot filters out everything outside of the top interrupt
context as an uninteresting or irrelevant part of the stack traces. This
helps with stack trace de-duplication, avoiding an explosion of saved
stack traces that share the same IRQ context code path but originate
from different randomly interrupted points, eventually exhausting the
stack depot.
Filtering uses in_irqentry_text() to identify functions within the
.irqentry.text and .softirqentry.text sections, which then become the
last stack trace entries being saved.
While __do_softirq() is placed into the .softirqentry.text section by
common code, populating .irqentry.text is architecture-specific.
Currently, the .irqentry.text section on s390 is empty, which prevents
stack depot filtering and de-duplication and could result in warnings
like:
Stack depot reached limit capacity
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 286113 at lib/stackdepot.c:252 depot_alloc_stack+0x39a/0x3c8
with PREEMPT and KASAN enabled.
Fix this by moving the IO/EXT interrupt handlers from .kprobes.text into
the .irqentry.text section and updating the kprobes blacklist to include
the .irqentry.text section.
This is done only for asynchronous interrupts and explicitly not for
program checks, which are synchronous and where the context beyond the
program check is important to preserve. Despite machine checks being
somewhat in between, they are extremely rare, and preserving context
when possible is also of value.
SVCs and Restart Interrupts are not relevant, one being always at the
boundary to user space and the other being a one-time thing.
IRQ entries filtering is also optionally used in ftrace function graph,
where the same logic applies.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: memalloc: prefer dma_mapping_error() over explicit address checking
With CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG enabled, the following warning is observed:
DMA-API: snd_hda_intel 0000:03:00.1: device driver failed to check map error[device address=0x00000000ffff0000] [size=20480 bytes] [mapped as single]
WARNING: CPU: 28 PID: 2255 at kernel/dma/debug.c:1036 check_unmap+0x1408/0x2430
CPU: 28 UID: 42 PID: 2255 Comm: wireplumber Tainted: G W L 6.12.0-10-133577cad6bf48e5a7848c4338124081393bfe8a+ #759
debug_dma_unmap_page+0xe9/0xf0
snd_dma_wc_free+0x85/0x130 [snd_pcm]
snd_pcm_lib_free_pages+0x1e3/0x440 [snd_pcm]
snd_pcm_common_ioctl+0x1c9a/0x2960 [snd_pcm]
snd_pcm_ioctl+0x6a/0xc0 [snd_pcm]
...
Check for returned DMA addresses using specialized dma_mapping_error()
helper which is generally recommended for this purpose by
Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpi3mr: Fix corrupt config pages PHY state is switched in sysfs
The driver, through the SAS transport, exposes a sysfs interface to
enable/disable PHYs in a controller/expander setup. When multiple PHYs
are disabled and enabled in rapid succession, the persistent and current
config pages related to SAS IO unit/SAS Expander pages could get
corrupted.
Use separate memory for each config request.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-dai: Do not release the link DMA on STOP
The linkDMA should not be released on stop trigger since a stream re-start
might happen without closing of the stream. This leaves a short time for
other streams to 'steal' the linkDMA since it has been released.
This issue is not easy to reproduce under normal conditions as usually
after stop the stream is closed, or the same stream is restarted, but if
another stream got in between the stop and start, like this:
aplay -Dhw:0,3 -c2 -r48000 -fS32_LE /dev/zero -d 120
CTRL+z
aplay -Dhw:0,0 -c2 -r48000 -fS32_LE /dev/zero -d 120
then the link DMA channels will be mixed up, resulting firmware error or
crash.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix transaction atomicity bug when enabling simple quotas
Set squota incompat bit before committing the transaction that enables
the feature.
With the config CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT enabled, an assertion
failure occurs regarding the simple quota feature.
[5.596534] assertion failed: btrfs_fs_incompat(fs_info, SIMPLE_QUOTA), in fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:365
[5.597098] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[5.597371] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:365!
[5.597946] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 268 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-00031-gf92f4749861b #146
[5.598450] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
[5.599008] RIP: 0010:btrfs_read_qgroup_config+0x74d/0x7a0
[5.604303] <TASK>
[5.605230] ? btrfs_read_qgroup_config+0x74d/0x7a0
[5.605538] ? exc_invalid_op+0x56/0x70
[5.605775] ? btrfs_read_qgroup_config+0x74d/0x7a0
[5.606066] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30
[5.606441] ? btrfs_read_qgroup_config+0x74d/0x7a0
[5.606741] ? btrfs_read_qgroup_config+0x74d/0x7a0
[5.607038] ? try_to_wake_up+0x317/0x760
[5.607286] open_ctree+0xd9c/0x1710
[5.607509] btrfs_get_tree+0x58a/0x7e0
[5.608002] vfs_get_tree+0x2e/0x100
[5.608224] fc_mount+0x16/0x60
[5.608420] btrfs_get_tree+0x2f8/0x7e0
[5.608897] vfs_get_tree+0x2e/0x100
[5.609121] path_mount+0x4c8/0xbc0
[5.609538] __x64_sys_mount+0x10d/0x150
The issue can be easily reproduced using the following reproducer:
root@q:linux# cat repro.sh
set -e
mkfs.btrfs -q -f /dev/sdb
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/btrfs
btrfs quota enable -s /mnt/btrfs
umount /mnt/btrfs
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/btrfs
The issue is that when enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), we set
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_SIMPLE_MODE at fs_info->qgroup_flags and persist
it in the quota root in the item with the key BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_KEY, but
we only set the incompat bit BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SIMPLE_QUOTA after we
commit the transaction used to enable simple quotas.
This means that if after that transaction commit we unmount the filesystem
without starting and committing any other transaction, or we have a power
failure, the next time we mount the filesystem we will find the flag
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_SIMPLE_MODE set in the item with the key
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_KEY but we will not find the incompat bit
BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SIMPLE_QUOTA set in the superblock, triggering an
assertion failure at:
btrfs_read_qgroup_config() -> qgroup_read_enable_gen()
To fix this issue, set the BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SIMPLE_QUOTA flag
immediately after setting the BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_SIMPLE_MODE.
This ensures that both flags are flushed to disk within the same
transaction.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock
This fixes a 'possible circular locking dependency detected' warning
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&instance->reset_mutex);
lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
lock(&instance->reset_mutex);
lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
Fix this by temporarily releasing the reset_mutex.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: oa_tc6: fix tx skb race condition between reference pointers
There are two skb pointers to manage tx skb's enqueued from n/w stack.
waiting_tx_skb pointer points to the tx skb which needs to be processed
and ongoing_tx_skb pointer points to the tx skb which is being processed.
SPI thread prepares the tx data chunks from the tx skb pointed by the
ongoing_tx_skb pointer. When the tx skb pointed by the ongoing_tx_skb is
processed, the tx skb pointed by the waiting_tx_skb is assigned to
ongoing_tx_skb and the waiting_tx_skb pointer is assigned with NULL.
Whenever there is a new tx skb from n/w stack, it will be assigned to
waiting_tx_skb pointer if it is NULL. Enqueuing and processing of a tx skb
handled in two different threads.
Consider a scenario where the SPI thread processed an ongoing_tx_skb and
it moves next tx skb from waiting_tx_skb pointer to ongoing_tx_skb pointer
without doing any NULL check. At this time, if the waiting_tx_skb pointer
is NULL then ongoing_tx_skb pointer is also assigned with NULL. After
that, if a new tx skb is assigned to waiting_tx_skb pointer by the n/w
stack and there is a chance to overwrite the tx skb pointer with NULL in
the SPI thread. Finally one of the tx skb will be left as unhandled,
resulting packet missing and memory leak.
- Consider the below scenario where the TXC reported from the previous
transfer is 10 and ongoing_tx_skb holds an tx ethernet frame which can be
transported in 20 TXCs and waiting_tx_skb is still NULL.
tx_credits = 10; /* 21 are filled in the previous transfer */
ongoing_tx_skb = 20;
waiting_tx_skb = NULL; /* Still NULL */
- So, (tc6->ongoing_tx_skb || tc6->waiting_tx_skb) becomes true.
- After oa_tc6_prepare_spi_tx_buf_for_tx_skbs()
ongoing_tx_skb = 10;
waiting_tx_skb = NULL; /* Still NULL */
- Perform SPI transfer.
- Process SPI rx buffer to get the TXC from footers.
- Now let's assume previously filled 21 TXCs are freed so we are good to
transport the next remaining 10 tx chunks from ongoing_tx_skb.
tx_credits = 21;
ongoing_tx_skb = 10;
waiting_tx_skb = NULL;
- So, (tc6->ongoing_tx_skb || tc6->waiting_tx_skb) becomes true again.
- In the oa_tc6_prepare_spi_tx_buf_for_tx_skbs()
ongoing_tx_skb = NULL;
waiting_tx_skb = NULL;
- Now the below bad case might happen,
Thread1 (oa_tc6_start_xmit) Thread2 (oa_tc6_spi_thread_handler)
--------------------------- -----------------------------------
- if waiting_tx_skb is NULL
- if ongoing_tx_skb is NULL
- ongoing_tx_skb = waiting_tx_skb
- waiting_tx_skb = skb
- waiting_tx_skb = NULL
...
- ongoing_tx_skb = NULL
- if waiting_tx_skb is NULL
- waiting_tx_skb = skb
To overcome the above issue, protect the moving of tx skb reference from
waiting_tx_skb pointer to ongoing_tx_skb pointer and assigning new tx skb
to waiting_tx_skb pointer, so that the other thread can't access the
waiting_tx_skb pointer until the current thread completes moving the tx
skb reference safely.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: check return value of sock_recvmsg when draining clc data
When receiving clc msg, the field length in smc_clc_msg_hdr indicates the
length of msg should be received from network and the value should not be
fully trusted as it is from the network. Once the value of length exceeds
the value of buflen in function smc_clc_wait_msg it may run into deadloop
when trying to drain the remaining data exceeding buflen.
This patch checks the return value of sock_recvmsg when draining data in
case of deadloop in draining.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-01-11