Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: qat - add param check for DH
Reject requests with a source buffer that is bigger than the size of the
key. This is to prevent a possible integer underflow that might happen
when copying the source scatterlist into a linear buffer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Fix unchecked MSR access error on HSW
The fuzzer triggers the below trace.
[ 7763.384369] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x689
(tried to write 0x1fffffff8101349e) at rIP: 0xffffffff810704a4
(native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
[ 7763.397420] Call Trace:
[ 7763.399881] <TASK>
[ 7763.401994] intel_pmu_lbr_restore+0x9a/0x1f0
[ 7763.406363] intel_pmu_lbr_sched_task+0x91/0x1c0
[ 7763.410992] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1cd/0x240
On a machine with the LBR format LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS2, when the TSX is
disabled, a TSX quirk is required to access LBR from registers.
The lbr_from_signext_quirk_needed() is introduced to determine whether
the TSX quirk should be applied. However, the
lbr_from_signext_quirk_needed() is invoked before the
intel_pmu_lbr_init(), which parses the LBR format information. Without
the correct LBR format information, the TSX quirk never be applied.
Move the lbr_from_signext_quirk_needed() into the intel_pmu_lbr_init().
Checking x86_pmu.lbr_has_tsx in the lbr_from_signext_quirk_needed() is
not required anymore.
Both LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS2 and LBR_FORMAT_INFO have LBR_TSX flag, but
only the LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS2 requirs the quirk. Update the comments
accordingly.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: qat - fix memory leak in RSA
When an RSA key represented in form 2 (as defined in PKCS #1 V2.1) is
used, some components of the private key persist even after the TFM is
released.
Replace the explicit calls to free the buffers in qat_rsa_exit_tfm()
with a call to qat_rsa_clear_ctx() which frees all buffers referenced in
the TFM context.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy()
mpol_set_nodemask()(mm/mempolicy.c) does not set up nodemask when
pol->mode is MPOL_LOCAL. Check pol->mode before access
pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed in mpol_rebind_policy()(mm/mempolicy.c).
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:352 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_task+0x2ac/0x2c0 mm/mempolicy.c:368
mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:352 [inline]
mpol_rebind_task+0x2ac/0x2c0 mm/mempolicy.c:368
cpuset_change_task_nodemask kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1711 [inline]
cpuset_attach+0x787/0x15e0 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:2278
cgroup_migrate_execute+0x1023/0x1d20 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2515
cgroup_migrate kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2771 [inline]
cgroup_attach_task+0x540/0x8b0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2804
__cgroup1_procs_write+0x5cc/0x7a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c:520
cgroup1_tasks_write+0x94/0xb0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c:539
cgroup_file_write+0x4c2/0x9e0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3852
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x66a/0x9f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2162 [inline]
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:503 [inline]
vfs_write+0x1318/0x2030 fs/read_write.c:590
ksys_write+0x28b/0x510 fs/read_write.c:643
__do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline]
__se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline]
__x64_sys_write+0xdb/0x120 fs/read_write.c:652
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3259 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc+0x902/0x11c0 mm/slub.c:3264
mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:293 [inline]
do_set_mempolicy+0x421/0xb70 mm/mempolicy.c:853
kernel_set_mempolicy mm/mempolicy.c:1504 [inline]
__do_sys_set_mempolicy mm/mempolicy.c:1510 [inline]
__se_sys_set_mempolicy+0x44c/0xb60 mm/mempolicy.c:1507
__x64_sys_set_mempolicy+0xd8/0x110 mm/mempolicy.c:1507
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_task (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=d6eb90f952c2a5de9ea718a1b873c55cb13b59dc
This patch seems to fix below bug too.
KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_mm (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f2fecd0d7013f54ec4162f60743a2b28df40926b
The uninit-value is pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed in mpol_rebind_policy().
When syzkaller reproducer runs to the beginning of mpol_new(),
mpol_new() mm/mempolicy.c
do_mbind() mm/mempolicy.c
kernel_mbind() mm/mempolicy.c
`mode` is 1(MPOL_PREFERRED), nodes_empty(*nodes) is `true` and `flags`
is 0. Then
mode = MPOL_LOCAL;
...
policy->mode = mode;
policy->flags = flags;
will be executed. So in mpol_set_nodemask(),
mpol_set_nodemask() mm/mempolicy.c
do_mbind()
kernel_mbind()
pol->mode is 4 (MPOL_LOCAL), that `nodemask` in `pol` is not initialized,
which will be accessed in mpol_rebind_policy().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy
A KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks:
1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed;
2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed.
Most KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices
(XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during
the machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device()
assumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as
discovered by Syzkaller.
This adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release().
This is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined
release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: bcm2835: bcm2835_spi_handle_err(): fix NULL pointer deref for non DMA transfers
In case a IRQ based transfer times out the bcm2835_spi_handle_err()
function is called. Since commit 1513ceee70f2 ("spi: bcm2835: Drop
dma_pending flag") the TX and RX DMA transfers are unconditionally
canceled, leading to NULL pointer derefs if ctlr->dma_tx or
ctlr->dma_rx are not set.
Fix the NULL pointer deref by checking that ctlr->dma_tx and
ctlr->dma_rx are valid pointers before accessing them.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: gpio-xilinx: Fix integer overflow
Current implementation is not able to configure more than 32 pins
due to incorrect data type. So type casting with unsigned long
to avoid it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_max_reordering.
While reading sysctl_tcp_max_reordering, it can be changed
concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle.
While reading sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle, it can be changed
concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_early_retrans.
While reading sysctl_tcp_early_retrans, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26