Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks
Smatch printed a warning:
arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c:198 poly1305_update_arch() error:
__memcpy() 'dctx->buf' too small (16 vs u32max)
It's caused because Smatch marks 'link_len' as untrusted since it comes
from sscanf(). Add a check to ensure that 'link_len' is not larger than
the size of the 'link_str' buffer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf
Our detector found a concurrent use-after-free bug when detaching an
NCI device. The main reason for this bug is the unexpected scheduling
between the used delayed mechanism (timer and workqueue).
The race can be demonstrated below:
Thread-1 Thread-2
| nci_dev_up()
| nci_open_device()
| __nci_request(nci_reset_req)
| nci_send_cmd
| queue_work(cmd_work)
nci_unregister_device() |
nci_close_device() | ...
del_timer_sync(cmd_timer)[1] |
... | Worker
nci_free_device() | nci_cmd_work()
kfree(ndev)[3] | mod_timer(cmd_timer)[2]
In short, the cleanup routine thought that the cmd_timer has already
been detached by [1] but the mod_timer can re-attach the timer [2], even
it is already released [3], resulting in UAF.
This UAF is easy to trigger, crash trace by POC is like below
[ 66.703713] ==================================================================
[ 66.703974] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] Write of size 8 at addr ffff888009fb7058 by task kworker/u4:1/33
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] CPU: 1 PID: 33 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2 #5
[ 66.703974] Workqueue: nfc2_nci_cmd_wq nci_cmd_work
[ 66.703974] Call Trace:
[ 66.703974] <TASK>
[ 66.703974] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
[ 66.703974] print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db
[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] kasan_report+0xbe/0x1c0
[ 66.703974] ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[ 66.703974] __mod_timer+0x5e6/0xb80
[ 66.703974] ? mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0
[ 66.703974] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xf0/0xf0
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x17b/0x410
[ 66.703974] ? queue_work_on+0x61/0x80
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x130
[ 66.703974] process_one_work+0x8bb/0x1510
[ 66.703974] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x410/0x410
[ 66.703974] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230
[ 66.703974] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
[ 66.703974] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50
[ 66.703974] worker_thread+0x575/0x1190
[ 66.703974] ? process_one_work+0x1510/0x1510
[ 66.703974] kthread+0x2a0/0x340
[ 66.703974] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 66.703974] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 66.703974] </TASK>
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] Allocated by task 267:
[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 66.703974] __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
[ 66.703974] nci_allocate_device+0xd3/0x390
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x183/0x2c0
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_uart_open+0xf2/0x1dd
[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_ioctl+0x2c3/0x4a0
[ 66.703974] tty_ioctl+0x764/0x1310
[ 66.703974] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190
[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 66.703974]
[ 66.703974] Freed by task 406:
[ 66.703974] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 66.703974] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[ 66.703974] kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
[ 66.703974] __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x170
[ 66.703974] kfree+0xb0/0x330
[ 66.703974] nfcmrvl_nci_unregister_dev+0x90/0xd0
[ 66.703974] nci_uart_tty_close+0xdf/0x180
[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_kill+0x73/0x110
[ 66.703974] tty_ldisc_hangup+0x281/0x5b0
[ 66.703974] __tty_hangup.part.0+0x431/0x890
[ 66.703974] tty_release+0x3a8/0xc80
[ 66.703974] __fput+0x1f0/0x8c0
[ 66.703974] task_work_run+0xc9/0x170
[ 66.703974] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x194/0x1a0
[ 66.703974] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50
[ 66.703974] do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
[ 66.703974] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0x
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Fix NULL pointer dereference in smc_pnet_find_ib()
dev_name() was called with dev.parent as argument but without to
NULL-check it before.
Solve this by checking the pointer before the call to dev_name().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: stmmac: fix altr_tse_pcs function when using a fixed-link
When using a fixed-link, the altr_tse_pcs driver crashes
due to null-pointer dereference as no phy_device is provided to
tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed function. Fix this by adding a check for
phy_dev before calling the tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed() function.
Also clean up the tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed function a bit. There is
no need to check for splitter_base and sgmii_adapter_base
because the driver will fail if these 2 variables are not
derived from the device tree.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: Fix KASAN slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr
Use the actual length of volume coherency data when setting the
xattr to avoid the following KASAN report.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888101e02af4 by task kworker/6:0/1347
CPU: 6 PID: 1347 Comm: kworker/6:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-nfs-fscache-netfs+ #13
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events fscache_create_volume_work [fscache]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x5a
print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db
? __lock_text_start+0x8/0x8
? cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
kasan_report+0xab/0x120
? cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
kasan_check_range+0xf5/0x1d0
memcpy+0x39/0x60
cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_acquire_volume+0x2be/0x500 [cachefiles]
? __cachefiles_free_volume+0x90/0x90 [cachefiles]
fscache_create_volume_work+0x68/0x160 [fscache]
process_one_work+0x3b7/0x6a0
worker_thread+0x2c4/0x650
? process_one_work+0x6a0/0x6a0
kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1347:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
__kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0x76/0x350 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_acquire_volume+0x2be/0x500 [cachefiles]
fscache_create_volume_work+0x68/0x160 [fscache]
process_one_work+0x3b7/0x6a0
worker_thread+0x2c4/0x650
kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888101e02af0
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of
8-byte region [ffff888101e02af0, ffff888101e02af8)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000a2292d70 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x101e02
flags: 0x17ffffc0000200(slab|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 0017ffffc0000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888100042280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080660066 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888101e02980: fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc
ffff888101e02a00: 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00
>ffff888101e02a80: fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 04 fc
^
ffff888101e02b00: fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc
ffff888101e02b80: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc
==================================================================
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: arfs: fix use-after-free when freeing @rx_cpu_rmap
The CI testing bots triggered the following splat:
[ 718.203054] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x53/0x80
[ 718.206349] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881bd127e00 by task sh/20834
[ 718.212852] CPU: 28 PID: 20834 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S W IOE 5.17.0-rc8_nextqueue-devqueue-02643-g23f3121aca93 #1
[ 718.219695] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0012.070720200218 07/07/2020
[ 718.223418] Call Trace:
[ 718.227139]
[ 718.230783] dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x42
[ 718.234431] print_address_description.constprop.9+0x21/0x170
[ 718.238177] ? free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x53/0x80
[ 718.241885] ? free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x53/0x80
[ 718.245539] kasan_report.cold.18+0x7f/0x11b
[ 718.249197] ? free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x53/0x80
[ 718.252852] free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x53/0x80
[ 718.256471] ice_free_cpu_rx_rmap.part.11+0x37/0x50 [ice]
[ 718.260174] ice_remove_arfs+0x5f/0x70 [ice]
[ 718.263810] ice_rebuild_arfs+0x3b/0x70 [ice]
[ 718.267419] ice_rebuild+0x39c/0xb60 [ice]
[ 718.270974] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
[ 718.274472] ? ice_init_phy_user_cfg+0x360/0x360 [ice]
[ 718.278033] ? delay_tsc+0x4a/0xb0
[ 718.281513] ? preempt_count_sub+0x14/0xc0
[ 718.284984] ? delay_tsc+0x8f/0xb0
[ 718.288463] ice_do_reset+0x92/0xf0 [ice]
[ 718.292014] ice_pci_err_resume+0x91/0xf0 [ice]
[ 718.295561] pci_reset_function+0x53/0x80
<...>
[ 718.393035] Allocated by task 690:
[ 718.433497] Freed by task 20834:
[ 718.495688] Last potentially related work creation:
[ 718.568966] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881bd127e00
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
[ 718.574085] The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
96-byte region [ffff8881bd127e00, ffff8881bd127e60)
[ 718.579265] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[ 718.598905] Memory state around the buggy address:
[ 718.601809] ffff8881bd127d00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
[ 718.604796] ffff8881bd127d80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc
[ 718.607794] >ffff8881bd127e00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
[ 718.610811] ^
[ 718.613819] ffff8881bd127e80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
[ 718.617107] ffff8881bd127f00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
This is due to that free_irq_cpu_rmap() is always being called
*after* (devm_)free_irq() and thus it tries to work with IRQ descs
already freed. For example, on device reset the driver frees the
rmap right before allocating a new one (the splat above).
Make rmap creation and freeing function symmetrical with
{request,free}_irq() calls i.e. do that on ifup/ifdown instead
of device probe/remove/resume. These operations can be performed
independently from the actual device aRFS configuration.
Also, make sure ice_vsi_free_irq() clears IRQ affinity notifiers
only when aRFS is disabled -- otherwise, CPU rmap sets and clears
its own and they must not be touched manually.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: unmark inode in use in error path
Unmark inode in use if error encountered. If the in-use flag leakage
occurs in cachefiles_open_file(), Cachefiles will complain "Inode
already in use" when later another cookie with the same index key is
looked up.
If the in-use flag leakage occurs in cachefiles_create_tmpfile(), though
the "Inode already in use" warning won't be triggered, fix the leakage
anyway.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: Fix the svc_deferred_event trace class
Fix a NULL deref crash that occurs when an svc_rqst is deferred
while the sunrpc tracing subsystem is enabled. svc_revisit() sets
dr->xprt to NULL, so it can't be relied upon in the tracepoint to
provide the remote's address.
Unfortunately we can't revert the "svc_deferred_class" hunk in
commit ece200ddd54b ("sunrpc: Save remote presentation address in
svc_xprt for trace events") because there is now a specific check
of event format specifiers for unsafe dereferences. The warning
that check emits is:
event svc_defer_recv has unsafe dereference of argument 1
A "%pISpc" format specifier with a "struct sockaddr *" is indeed
flagged by this check.
Instead, take the brute-force approach used by the svcrdma_qp_error
tracepoint. Convert the dr::addr field into a presentation address
in the TP_fast_assign() arm of the trace event, and store that as
a string. This fix can be backported to -stable kernels.
In the meantime, commit c6ced22997ad ("tracing: Update print fmt
check to handle new __get_sockaddr() macro") is now in v5.18, so
this wonky fix can be replaced with __sockaddr() and friends
properly during the v5.19 merge window.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
veth: Ensure eth header is in skb's linear part
After feeding a decapsulated packet to a veth device with act_mirred,
skb_headlen() may be 0. But veth_xmit() calls __dev_forward_skb(),
which expects at least ETH_HLEN byte of linear data (as
__dev_forward_skb2() calls eth_type_trans(), which pulls ETH_HLEN bytes
unconditionally).
Use pskb_may_pull() to ensure veth_xmit() respects this constraint.
kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2328!
RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans+0xcf/0x140
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dev_forward_skb2+0xe3/0x160
veth_xmit+0x6e/0x250 [veth]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc7/0x200
__dev_queue_xmit+0x47f/0x520
? skb_ensure_writable+0x85/0xa0
? skb_mpls_pop+0x98/0x1c0
tcf_mirred_act+0x442/0x47e [act_mirred]
tcf_action_exec+0x86/0x140
fl_classify+0x1d8/0x1e0 [cls_flower]
? dma_pte_clear_level+0x129/0x1a0
? dma_pte_clear_level+0x129/0x1a0
? prb_fill_curr_block+0x2f/0xc0
? skb_copy_bits+0x11a/0x220
__tcf_classify+0x58/0x110
tcf_classify_ingress+0x6b/0x140
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x47d/0xfd0
? __iommu_dma_unmap_swiotlb+0x44/0x90
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x3d/0xa0
netif_receive_skb+0x116/0x170
be_process_rx+0x22f/0x330 [be2net]
be_poll+0x13c/0x370 [be2net]
__napi_poll+0x2a/0x170
net_rx_action+0x22f/0x2f0
__do_softirq+0xca/0x2a8
__irq_exit_rcu+0xc1/0xe0
common_interrupt+0x83/0xa0
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit
mpe: On 64-bit Book3E vmalloc space starts at 0x8000000000000000.
Because of the way __pa() works we have:
__pa(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore
virt_to_pfn(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore
virt_addr_valid(0x8000000000000000) == true
Which is wrong, virt_addr_valid() should be false for vmalloc space.
In fact all vmalloc addresses that alias with a valid PFN will return
true from virt_addr_valid(). That can cause bugs with hardened usercopy
as described below by Kefeng Wang:
When running ethtool eth0 on 64-bit Book3E, a BUG occurred:
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object not in SLUB page?! (offset 0, size 1048)!
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99
...
usercopy_abort+0x64/0xa0 (unreliable)
__check_heap_object+0x168/0x190
__check_object_size+0x1a0/0x200
dev_ethtool+0x2494/0x2b20
dev_ioctl+0x5d0/0x770
sock_do_ioctl+0xf0/0x1d0
sock_ioctl+0x3ec/0x5a0
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf0/0x160
system_call_exception+0xfc/0x1f0
system_call_common+0xf8/0x200
The code shows below,
data = vzalloc(array_size(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN));
copy_to_user(useraddr, data, gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN))
The data is alloced by vmalloc(), virt_addr_valid(ptr) will return true
on 64-bit Book3E, which leads to the panic.
As commit 4dd7554a6456 ("powerpc/64: Add VIRTUAL_BUG_ON checks for __va
and __pa addresses") does, make sure the virt addr above PAGE_OFFSET in
the virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit, also add upper limit check to make
sure the virt is below high_memory.
Meanwhile, for 32-bit PAGE_OFFSET is the virtual address of the start
of lowmem, high_memory is the upper low virtual address, the check is
suitable for 32-bit, this will fix the issue mentioned in commit
602946ec2f90 ("powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly") too.
On 32-bit there is a similar problem with high memory, that was fixed in
commit 602946ec2f90 ("powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly"), but that
commit breaks highmem and needs to be reverted.
We can't easily fix __pa(), we have code that relies on its current
behaviour. So for now add extra checks to virt_addr_valid().
For 64-bit Book3S the extra checks are not necessary, the combination of
virt_to_pfn() and pfn_valid() should yield the correct result, but they
are harmless.
[mpe: Add additional change log detail]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26