Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check
We capture a NULL pointer issue when resizing a corrupt ext4 image which
is freshly clear resize_inode feature (not run e2fsck). It could be
simply reproduced by following steps. The problem is because of the
resize_inode feature was cleared, and it will convert the filesystem to
meta_bg mode in ext4_resize_fs(), but the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks was
not reduced to zero, so could we mistakenly call reserve_backup_gdb()
and passing an uninitialized resize_inode to it when adding new group
descriptors.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda 3G
tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/sda #forget to run requested e2fsck
mount /dev/sda /mnt
resize2fs /dev/sda 8G
========
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
CPU: 19 PID: 3243 Comm: resize2fs Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-00001-gfde086c5ebfd #748
...
RIP: 0010:ext4_flex_group_add+0xe08/0x2570
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext4_resize_fs+0xbec/0x1660
__ext4_ioctl+0x1749/0x24e0
ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xa6/0x110
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f2dd739617b
========
The fix is simple, add a check in ext4_resize_begin() to make sure that
the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero when the resize_inode feature is
disabled.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bus: fsl-mc-bus: fix KASAN use-after-free in fsl_mc_bus_remove()
In fsl_mc_bus_remove(), mc->root_mc_bus_dev->mc_io is passed to
fsl_destroy_mc_io(). However, mc->root_mc_bus_dev is already freed in
fsl_mc_device_remove(). Then reference to mc->root_mc_bus_dev->mc_io
triggers KASAN use-after-free. To avoid the use-after-free, keep the
reference to mc->root_mc_bus_dev->mc_io in a local variable and pass to
fsl_destroy_mc_io().
This patch needs rework to apply to kernels older than v5.15.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: Fix refcount leak in lpc32xx_udc_probe
of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
of_node_put() will check NULL pointer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: ibmvfc: Store vhost pointer during subcrq allocation
Currently the back pointer from a queue to the vhost adapter isn't set
until after subcrq interrupt registration. The value is available when a
queue is first allocated and can/should be also set for primary and async
queues as well as subcrqs.
This fixes a crash observed during kexec/kdump on Power 9 with legacy XICS
interrupt controller where a pending subcrq interrupt from the previous
kernel can be replayed immediately upon IRQ registration resulting in
dereference of a garbage backpointer in ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi().
Kernel attempted to read user page (58) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000058
Faulting instruction address: 0xc008000003216a08
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
...
NIP [c008000003216a08] ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi+0x40/0xb0 [ibmvfc]
LR [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270
Call Trace:
[c000000047fa3d80] [c0000000123e6180] 0xc0000000123e6180 (unreliable)
[c000000047fa3df0] [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270
[c000000047fa3ea0] [c000000008207d18] handle_irq_event+0x98/0x188
[c000000047fa3ef0] [c00000000820f564] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc4/0x310
[c000000047fa3f40] [c000000008205c60] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x80
[c000000047fa3f60] [c000000008015c40] __do_irq+0x70/0x1a0
[c000000047fa3f90] [c000000008016d7c] __do_IRQ+0x9c/0x130
[c000000014622f60] [0000000020000000] 0x20000000
[c000000014622ff0] [c000000008016e50] do_IRQ+0x40/0xa0
[c000000014623020] [c000000008017044] replay_soft_interrupts+0x194/0x2f0
[c000000014623210] [c0000000080172a8] arch_local_irq_restore+0x108/0x170
[c000000014623240] [c000000008eb1008] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x58/0xb0
[c000000014623270] [c00000000820b12c] __setup_irq+0x49c/0x9f0
[c000000014623310] [c00000000820b7c0] request_threaded_irq+0x140/0x230
[c000000014623380] [c008000003212a50] ibmvfc_register_scsi_channel+0x1e8/0x2f0 [ibmvfc]
[c000000014623450] [c008000003213d1c] ibmvfc_init_sub_crqs+0xc4/0x1f0 [ibmvfc]
[c0000000146234d0] [c0080000032145a8] ibmvfc_reset_crq+0x150/0x210 [ibmvfc]
[c000000014623550] [c0080000032147c8] ibmvfc_init_crq+0x160/0x280 [ibmvfc]
[c0000000146235f0] [c00800000321a9cc] ibmvfc_probe+0x2a4/0x530 [ibmvfc]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/mdp4: Fix refcount leak in mdp4_modeset_init_intf
of_graph_get_remote_node() returns remote device node pointer with
refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it
when not need anymore.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/488473/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: disable the elevator int del_gendisk
The elevator is only used for file system requests, which are stopped in
del_gendisk. Move disabling the elevator and freeing the scheduler tags
to the end of del_gendisk instead of doing that work in disk_release and
blk_cleanup_queue to avoid a use after free on q->tag_set from
disk_release as the tag_set might not be alive at that point.
Move the blk_qos_exit call as well, as it just depends on the elevator
exit and would be the only reason to keep the not exactly cheap queue
freeze in disk_release.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
igb: fix a use-after-free issue in igb_clean_tx_ring
Fix the following use-after-free bug in igb_clean_tx_ring routine when
the NIC is running in XDP mode. The issue can be triggered redirecting
traffic into the igb NIC and then closing the device while the traffic
is flowing.
[ 73.322719] CPU: 1 PID: 487 Comm: xdp_redirect Not tainted 5.18.3-apu2 #9
[ 73.330639] Hardware name: PC Engines APU2/APU2, BIOS 4.0.7 02/28/2017
[ 73.337434] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xa7/0xf0
[ 73.362283] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000081f798 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 73.367761] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90000420f80 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 73.375200] RDX: ffff88811ad22d00 RSI: ffff88811ad171e0 RDI: ffff88811ad171e0
[ 73.382590] RBP: 0000000000000900 R08: ffffffff82298f28 R09: 0000000000000058
[ 73.390008] R10: 0000000000000219 R11: ffffffff82280f40 R12: 0000000000000090
[ 73.397356] R13: ffff888102343a40 R14: ffff88810359e0e4 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 73.404806] FS: 00007ff38d31d740(0000) GS:ffff88811ad00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 73.413129] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 73.419096] CR2: 000055cff35f13f8 CR3: 0000000106391000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 73.426565] Call Trace:
[ 73.429087] <TASK>
[ 73.431314] igb_clean_tx_ring+0x43/0x140 [igb]
[ 73.436002] igb_down+0x1d7/0x220 [igb]
[ 73.439974] __igb_close+0x3c/0x120 [igb]
[ 73.444118] igb_xdp+0x10c/0x150 [igb]
[ 73.447983] ? igb_pci_sriov_configure+0x70/0x70 [igb]
[ 73.453362] dev_xdp_install+0xda/0x110
[ 73.457371] dev_xdp_attach+0x1da/0x550
[ 73.461369] do_setlink+0xfd0/0x10f0
[ 73.465166] ? __nla_validate_parse+0x89/0xc70
[ 73.469714] rtnl_setlink+0x11a/0x1e0
[ 73.473547] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x145/0x3d0
[ 73.477709] ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x130/0x130
[ 73.482258] netlink_rcv_skb+0x8d/0x110
[ 73.486229] netlink_unicast+0x230/0x340
[ 73.490317] netlink_sendmsg+0x215/0x470
[ 73.494395] __sys_sendto+0x179/0x190
[ 73.498268] ? move_addr_to_user+0x37/0x70
[ 73.502547] ? __sys_getsockname+0x84/0xe0
[ 73.506853] ? netlink_setsockopt+0x1c1/0x4a0
[ 73.511349] ? __sys_setsockopt+0xc8/0x1d0
[ 73.515636] __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30
[ 73.519603] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x80
[ 73.523399] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 73.528712] RIP: 0033:0x7ff38d41f20c
[ 73.551866] RSP: 002b:00007fff3b945a68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[ 73.559640] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ff38d41f20c
[ 73.567066] RDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: 00007fff3b945b30 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 73.574457] RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 73.581852] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff3b945ab0
[ 73.589179] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00007fff3b945b30
[ 73.596545] </TASK>
[ 73.598842] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: fix use-after-free Read in tipc_named_reinit
syzbot found the following issue on:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tipc_named_reinit+0x94f/0x9b0
net/tipc/name_distr.c:413
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805299a000 by task kworker/1:9/23764
CPU: 1 PID: 23764 Comm: kworker/1:9 Not tainted
5.18.0-rc4-syzkaller-00878-g17d49e6e8012 #0
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,
BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events tipc_net_finalize_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x495
mm/kasan/report.c:313
print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491
tipc_named_reinit+0x94f/0x9b0 net/tipc/name_distr.c:413
tipc_net_finalize+0x234/0x3d0 net/tipc/net.c:138
process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298
</TASK>
[...]
==================================================================
In the commit
d966ddcc3821 ("tipc: fix a deadlock when flushing scheduled work"),
the cancel_work_sync() function just to make sure ONLY the work
tipc_net_finalize_work() is executing/pending on any CPU completed before
tipc namespace is destroyed through tipc_exit_net(). But this function
is not guaranteed the work is the last queued. So, the destroyed instance
may be accessed in the work which will try to enqueue later.
In order to completely fix, we re-order the calling of cancel_work_sync()
to make sure the work tipc_net_finalize_work() was last queued and it
must be completed by calling cancel_work_sync().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slub: add missing TID updates on slab deactivation
The fastpath in slab_alloc_node() assumes that c->slab is stable as long as
the TID stays the same. However, two places in __slab_alloc() currently
don't update the TID when deactivating the CPU slab.
If multiple operations race the right way, this could lead to an object
getting lost; or, in an even more unlikely situation, it could even lead to
an object being freed onto the wrong slab's freelist, messing up the
`inuse` counter and eventually causing a page to be freed to the page
allocator while it still contains slab objects.
(I haven't actually tested these cases though, this is just based on
looking at the code. Writing testcases for this stuff seems like it'd be
a pain...)
The race leading to state inconsistency is (all operations on the same CPU
and kmem_cache):
- task A: begin do_slab_free():
- read TID
- read pcpu freelist (==NULL)
- check `slab == c->slab` (true)
- [PREEMPT A->B]
- task B: begin slab_alloc_node():
- fastpath fails (`c->freelist` is NULL)
- enter __slab_alloc()
- slub_get_cpu_ptr() (disables preemption)
- enter ___slab_alloc()
- take local_lock_irqsave()
- read c->freelist as NULL
- get_freelist() returns NULL
- write `c->slab = NULL`
- drop local_unlock_irqrestore()
- goto new_slab
- slub_percpu_partial() is NULL
- get_partial() returns NULL
- slub_put_cpu_ptr() (enables preemption)
- [PREEMPT B->A]
- task A: finish do_slab_free():
- this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() succeeds()
- [CORRUPT STATE: c->slab==NULL, c->freelist!=NULL]
From there, the object on c->freelist will get lost if task B is allowed to
continue from here: It will proceed to the retry_load_slab label,
set c->slab, then jump to load_freelist, which clobbers c->freelist.
But if we instead continue as follows, we get worse corruption:
- task A: run __slab_free() on object from other struct slab:
- CPU_PARTIAL_FREE case (slab was on no list, is now on pcpu partial)
- task A: run slab_alloc_node() with NUMA node constraint:
- fastpath fails (c->slab is NULL)
- call __slab_alloc()
- slub_get_cpu_ptr() (disables preemption)
- enter ___slab_alloc()
- c->slab is NULL: goto new_slab
- slub_percpu_partial() is non-NULL
- set c->slab to slub_percpu_partial(c)
- [CORRUPT STATE: c->slab points to slab-1, c->freelist has objects
from slab-2]
- goto redo
- node_match() fails
- goto deactivate_slab
- existing c->freelist is passed into deactivate_slab()
- inuse count of slab-1 is decremented to account for object from
slab-2
At this point, the inuse count of slab-1 is 1 lower than it should be.
This means that if we free all allocated objects in slab-1 except for one,
SLUB will think that slab-1 is completely unused, and may free its page,
leading to use-after-free.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xtensa: Fix refcount leak bug in time.c
In calibrate_ccount(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node
pointer with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when
it is not used anymore.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26