Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions
While parsing user-provided actions, openvswitch module may dynamically
allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions.
So this memory has to be freed while destroying the actions.
Currently there are only two such actions: ct() and set(). However,
there are many actions that can hold nested lists of actions and
ovs_nla_free_flow_actions() just jumps over them leaking the memory.
For example, removal of the flow with the following actions will lead
to a leak of the memory allocated by nf_ct_tmpl_alloc():
actions:clone(ct(commit),0)
Non-freed set() action may also leak the 'dst' structure for the
tunnel info including device references.
Under certain conditions with a high rate of flow rotation that may
cause significant memory leak problem (2MB per second in reporter's
case). The problem is also hard to mitigate, because the user doesn't
have direct control over the datapath flows generated by OVS.
Fix that by iterating over all the nested actions and freeing
everything that needs to be freed recursively.
New build time assertion should protect us from this problem if new
actions will be added in the future.
Unfortunately, openvswitch module doesn't use NLA_F_NESTED, so all
attributes has to be explicitly checked. sample() and clone() actions
are mixing extra attributes into the user-provided action list. That
prevents some code generalization too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: release correct delalloc amount in direct IO write path
Running generic/406 causes the following WARNING in btrfs_destroy_inode()
which tells there are outstanding extents left.
In btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write(), we reserve a temporary outstanding
extents with btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata() (or indirectly from
btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space(()). We then release the outstanding extents
with btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(). However, the "len" can be modified
in the COW case, which releases fewer outstanding extents than expected.
Fix it by calling btrfs_delalloc_release_extents() for the original length.
To reproduce the warning, the filesystem should be 1 GiB. It's
triggering a short-write, due to not being able to allocate a large
extent and instead allocating a smaller one.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 757 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8848 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e6/0x210 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic xor lzo_compress
lzo_decompress raid6_pq zstd zstd_decompress zstd_compress xxhash zram
zsmalloc
CPU: 0 PID: 757 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.17.0-rc8+ #101
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS d55cb5a 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e6/0x210 [btrfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000327bda8 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888100548b78 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000026900 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888100548b78
RBP: ffff888100548940 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88810b48aba8
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff8881004eb240 R12: ffff88810b48a800
R13: ffff88810b48ec08 R14: ffff88810b48ed00 R15: ffff888100490c68
FS: 00007f8549ea0b80(0000) GS:ffff888237c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f854a09e733 CR3: 000000010a2e9003 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
destroy_inode+0x33/0x70
dispose_list+0x43/0x60
evict_inodes+0x161/0x1b0
generic_shutdown_super+0x2d/0x110
kill_anon_super+0xf/0x20
btrfs_kill_super+0xd/0x20 [btrfs]
deactivate_locked_super+0x27/0x90
cleanup_mnt+0x12c/0x180
task_work_run+0x54/0x80
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x152/0x160
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x42/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f854a000fb7
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix by adding FPU protection for dcn30_internal_validate_bw
[Why]
Below general protection fault observed when WebGL Aquarium is run for
longer duration. If drm debug logs are enabled and set to 0x1f then the
issue is observed within 10 minutes of run.
[ 100.717056] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x2d33302d32323032: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 100.727921] CPU: 3 PID: 1906 Comm: DrmThread Tainted: G W 5.15.30 #12 d726c6a2d6ebe5cf9223931cbca6892f916fe18b
[ 100.754419] RIP: 0010:CalculateSwathWidth+0x1f7/0x44f
[ 100.767109] Code: 00 00 00 f2 42 0f 11 04 f0 48 8b 85 88 00 00 00 f2 42 0f 10 04 f0 48 8b 85 98 00 00 00 f2 42 0f 11 04 f0 48 8b 45 10 0f 57 c0 <f3> 42 0f 2a 04 b0 0f 57 c9 f3 43 0f 2a 0c b4 e8 8c e2 f3 ff 48 8b
[ 100.781269] RSP: 0018:ffffa9230079eeb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 100.812528] RAX: 2d33302d32323032 RBX: 0000000000000500 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 100.819656] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff99deb712c49c RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 100.826781] RBP: ffffa9230079ef50 R08: ffff99deb712460c R09: ffff99deb712462c
[ 100.833907] R10: ffff99deb7124940 R11: ffff99deb7124d70 R12: ffff99deb712ae44
[ 100.841033] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffa9230079f0a0
[ 100.848159] FS: 00007af121212640(0000) GS:ffff99deba780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 100.856240] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 100.861980] CR2: 0000209000fe1000 CR3: 000000011b18c000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
[ 100.869106] Call Trace:
[ 100.871555] <TASK>
[ 100.873655] ? asm_sysvec_reschedule_ipi+0x12/0x20
[ 100.878449] CalculateSwathAndDETConfiguration+0x1a3/0x6dd
[ 100.883937] dml31_ModeSupportAndSystemConfigurationFull+0x2ce4/0x76da
[ 100.890467] ? kallsyms_lookup_buildid+0xc8/0x163
[ 100.895173] ? kallsyms_lookup_buildid+0xc8/0x163
[ 100.899874] ? __sprint_symbol+0x80/0x135
[ 100.903883] ? dm_update_plane_state+0x3f9/0x4d2
[ 100.908500] ? symbol_string+0xb7/0xde
[ 100.912250] ? number+0x145/0x29b
[ 100.915566] ? vsnprintf+0x341/0x5ff
[ 100.919141] ? desc_read_finalized_seq+0x39/0x87
[ 100.923755] ? update_load_avg+0x1b9/0x607
[ 100.927849] ? compute_mst_dsc_configs_for_state+0x7d/0xd5b
[ 100.933416] ? fetch_pipe_params+0xa4d/0xd0c
[ 100.937686] ? dc_fpu_end+0x3d/0xa8
[ 100.941175] dml_get_voltage_level+0x16b/0x180
[ 100.945619] dcn30_internal_validate_bw+0x10e/0x89b
[ 100.950495] ? dcn31_validate_bandwidth+0x68/0x1fc
[ 100.955285] ? resource_build_scaling_params+0x98b/0xb8c
[ 100.960595] ? dcn31_validate_bandwidth+0x68/0x1fc
[ 100.965384] dcn31_validate_bandwidth+0x9a/0x1fc
[ 100.970001] dc_validate_global_state+0x238/0x295
[ 100.974703] amdgpu_dm_atomic_check+0x9c1/0xbce
[ 100.979235] ? _printk+0x59/0x73
[ 100.982467] drm_atomic_check_only+0x403/0x78b
[ 100.986912] drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x49b/0x546
[ 100.991358] ? drm_ioctl+0x1c1/0x3b3
[ 100.994936] ? drm_atomic_set_property+0x92a/0x92a
[ 100.999725] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xdc/0x149
[ 101.003648] drm_ioctl+0x27f/0x3b3
[ 101.007051] ? drm_atomic_set_property+0x92a/0x92a
[ 101.011842] amdgpu_drm_ioctl+0x49/0x7d
[ 101.015679] __se_sys_ioctl+0x7c/0xb8
[ 101.015685] do_syscall_64+0x5f/0xb8
[ 101.015690] ? __irq_exit_rcu+0x34/0x96
[How]
It calles populate_dml_pipes which uses doubles to initialize.
Adding FPU protection avoids context switch and probable loss of vba context
as there is potential contention while drm debug logs are enabled.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device
OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux
device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot
unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference.
An example error message on ppc64le is shown below.
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000060
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000080dfa4
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
[...]
CPU: 2 PID: 139 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-ae085d7f9365 #1
NIP: c00000000080dfa4 LR: c00000000080df9c CTR: c000000000797430
REGS: c000000004132fe0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.17.0-ae085d7f9365)
MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28228282 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c00000000000c80c DAR: 0000000000000060 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
GPR00: c00000000080df9c c000000004133280 c00000000169d200 0000000000000029
GPR04: 00000000ffffefff c000000004132f90 c000000004132f88 0000000000000000
GPR08: c0000000015658f8 c0000000015cd200 c0000000014f57d0 0000000048228283
GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000003fffe300 0000000020000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000113fc4a40 0000000000000005 0000000113fcfb80
GPR20: 000001000f7283b0 0000000000000000 c000000000e4a588 c000000000e4a5b0
GPR24: 0000000000000001 00000000000a0000 c008000000db0168 c0000000021f6ec0
GPR28: c0000000016d65a8 c000000004b36460 0000000000000000 c0000000016d64b0
NIP [c00000000080dfa4] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x184/0x1d0
[c000000004133280] [c00000000080df9c] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x17c/0x1d0 (unreliable)
[c000000004133350] [c00000000080e4d0] remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x60/0x150
[c0000000041333a0] [c00000000080e6f4] remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x134/0x1b0
[c000000004133450] [c008000000e70438] drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x90/0x100 [drm]
[c000000004133490] [c008000000da0ce4] bochs_pci_probe+0x6c/0xa64 [bochs]
[...]
[c000000004133db0] [c00000000002aaa0] system_call_exception+0x170/0x2d0
[c000000004133e10] [c00000000000c3cc] system_call_common+0xec/0x250
The bug [1] was introduced by commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug
firmware fb devices on forced removal"). Most firmware framebuffers
have an underlying platform device, which can be hot-unplugged
before loading the native graphics driver. OF framebuffers do not
(yet) have that device. Fix the code by unregistering the framebuffer
as before without a hot unplug.
Tested with 5.17 on qemu ppc64le emulation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/panel: ili9341: fix optional regulator handling
If the optional regulator lookup fails, reset the pointer to NULL.
Other functions such as mipi_dbi_poweron_reset_conditional() only do
a NULL pointer check and will otherwise dereference the error pointer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: Restrict usage of GPIO chip irq members before initialization
GPIO chip irq members are exposed before they could be completely
initialized and this leads to race conditions.
One such issue was observed for the gc->irq.domain variable which
was accessed through the I2C interface in gpiochip_to_irq() before
it could be initialized by gpiochip_add_irqchip(). This resulted in
Kernel NULL pointer dereference.
Following are the logs for reference :-
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: gpiod_to_irq+0x53/0x70
kernel: acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get_by+0x113/0x1f0
kernel: i2c_acpi_get_irq+0xc0/0xd0
kernel: i2c_device_probe+0x28a/0x2a0
kernel: really_probe+0xf2/0x460
kernel: RIP: 0010:gpiochip_to_irq+0x47/0xc0
To avoid such scenarios, restrict usage of GPIO chip irq members before
they are completely initialized.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: sata_dwc_460ex: Fix crash due to OOB write
the driver uses libata's "tag" values from in various arrays.
Since the mentioned patch bumped the ATA_TAG_INTERNAL to 32,
the value of the SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX needs to account for that.
Otherwise ATA_TAG_INTERNAL usage cause similar crashes like
this as reported by Tice Rex on the OpenWrt Forum and
reproduced (with symbols) here:
| BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000
| Faulting instruction address: 0xc03ed4b8
| Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
| BE PAGE_SIZE=4K PowerPC 44x Platform
| CPU: 0 PID: 362 Comm: scsi_eh_1 Not tainted 5.4.163 #0
| NIP: c03ed4b8 LR: c03d27e8 CTR: c03ed36c
| REGS: cfa59950 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.4.163)
| MSR: 00021000 <CE,ME> CR: 42000222 XER: 00000000
| DEAR: 00000000 ESR: 00000000
| GPR00: c03d27e8 cfa59a08 cfa55fe0 00000000 0fa46bc0 [...]
| [..]
| NIP [c03ed4b8] sata_dwc_qc_issue+0x14c/0x254
| LR [c03d27e8] ata_qc_issue+0x1c8/0x2dc
| Call Trace:
| [cfa59a08] [c003f4e0] __cancel_work_timer+0x124/0x194 (unreliable)
| [cfa59a78] [c03d27e8] ata_qc_issue+0x1c8/0x2dc
| [cfa59a98] [c03d2b3c] ata_exec_internal_sg+0x240/0x524
| [cfa59b08] [c03d2e98] ata_exec_internal+0x78/0xe0
| [cfa59b58] [c03d30fc] ata_read_log_page.part.38+0x1dc/0x204
| [cfa59bc8] [c03d324c] ata_identify_page_supported+0x68/0x130
| [...]
This is because sata_dwc_dma_xfer_complete() NULLs the
dma_pending's next neighbour "chan" (a *dma_chan struct) in
this '32' case right here (line ~735):
> hsdevp->dma_pending[tag] = SATA_DWC_DMA_PENDING_NONE;
Then the next time, a dma gets issued; dma_dwc_xfer_setup() passes
the NULL'd hsdevp->chan to the dmaengine_slave_config() which then
causes the crash.
With this patch, SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX is now set to ATA_MAX_QUEUE + 1.
This avoids the OOB. But please note, there was a worthwhile discussion
on what ATA_TAG_INTERNAL and ATA_MAX_QUEUE is. And why there should not
be a "fake" 33 command-long queue size.
Ideally, the dw driver should account for the ATA_TAG_INTERNAL.
In Damien Le Moal's words: "... having looked at the driver, it
is a bigger change than just faking a 33rd "tag" that is in fact
not a command tag at all."
BugLink: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9505
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
irqchip/gic-v3: Fix GICR_CTLR.RWP polling
It turns out that our polling of RWP is totally wrong when checking
for it in the redistributors, as we test the *distributor* bit index,
whereas it is a different bit number in the RDs... Oopsie boo.
This is embarassing. Not only because it is wrong, but also because
it took *8 years* to notice the blunder...
Just fix the damn thing.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix qgroup reserve overflow the qgroup limit
We use extent_changeset->bytes_changed in qgroup_reserve_data() to record
how many bytes we set for EXTENT_QGROUP_RESERVED state. Currently the
bytes_changed is set as "unsigned int", and it will overflow if we try to
fallocate a range larger than 4GiB. The result is we reserve less bytes
and eventually break the qgroup limit.
Unlike regular buffered/direct write, which we use one changeset for
each ordered extent, which can never be larger than 256M. For
fallocate, we use one changeset for the whole range, thus it no longer
respects the 256M per extent limit, and caused the problem.
The following example test script reproduces the problem:
$ cat qgroup-overflow.sh
#!/bin/bash
DEV=/dev/sdj
MNT=/mnt/sdj
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
mount $DEV $MNT
# Set qgroup limit to 2GiB.
btrfs quota enable $MNT
btrfs qgroup limit 2G $MNT
# Try to fallocate a 3GiB file. This should fail.
echo
echo "Try to fallocate a 3GiB file..."
fallocate -l 3G $MNT/3G.file
# Try to fallocate a 5GiB file.
echo
echo "Try to fallocate a 5GiB file..."
fallocate -l 5G $MNT/5G.file
# See we break the qgroup limit.
echo
sync
btrfs qgroup show -r $MNT
umount $MNT
When running the test:
$ ./qgroup-overflow.sh
(...)
Try to fallocate a 3GiB file...
fallocate: fallocate failed: Disk quota exceeded
Try to fallocate a 5GiB file...
qgroupid rfer excl max_rfer
-------- ---- ---- --------
0/5 5.00GiB 5.00GiB 2.00GiB
Since we have no control of how bytes_changed is used, it's better to
set it to u64.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/hfi1: Fix use-after-free bug for mm struct
Under certain conditions, such as MPI_Abort, the hfi1 cleanup code may
represent the last reference held on the task mm.
hfi1_mmu_rb_unregister() then drops the last reference and the mm is freed
before the final use in hfi1_release_user_pages(). A new task may
allocate the mm structure while it is still being used, resulting in
problems. One manifestation is corruption of the mmap_sem counter leading
to a hang in down_write(). Another is corruption of an mm struct that is
in use by another task.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26