Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exfat: check if cluster num is valid
Syzbot reported slab-out-of-bounds read in exfat_clear_bitmap.
This was triggered by reproducer calling truncute with size 0,
which causes the following trace:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in exfat_clear_bitmap+0x147/0x490 fs/exfat/balloc.c:174
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888115aa9508 by task syz-executor251/365
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1e2/0x24b lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description+0x81/0x3c0 mm/kasan/report.c:233
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:419 [inline]
kasan_report+0x1a4/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:436
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
exfat_clear_bitmap+0x147/0x490 fs/exfat/balloc.c:174
exfat_free_cluster+0x25a/0x4a0 fs/exfat/fatent.c:181
__exfat_truncate+0x99e/0xe00 fs/exfat/file.c:217
exfat_truncate+0x11b/0x4f0 fs/exfat/file.c:243
exfat_setattr+0xa03/0xd40 fs/exfat/file.c:339
notify_change+0xb76/0xe10 fs/attr.c:336
do_truncate+0x1ea/0x2d0 fs/open.c:65
Move the is_valid_cluster() helper from fatent.c to a common
header to make it reusable in other *.c files. And add is_valid_cluster()
to validate if cluster number is within valid range in exfat_clear_bitmap()
and exfat_set_bitmap().
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: conntrack: re-fetch conntrack after insertion
In case the conntrack is clashing, insertion can free skb->_nfct and
set skb->_nfct to the already-confirmed entry.
This wasn't found before because the conntrack entry and the extension
space used to free'd after an rcu grace period, plus the race needs
events enabled to trigger.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: Use __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D bits
Use the recently introduced __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D
bits instead of mapping the PTE into kernel address space. The VM_PFNMAP
path is broken as it assumes that vm_pgoff is the base pfn of the mapped
VMA range, which is conceptually wrong as vm_pgoff is the offset relative
to the file and has nothing to do with the pfn. The horrific hack worked
for the original use case (backing guest memory with /dev/mem), but leads
to accessing "random" pfns for pretty much any other VM_PFNMAP case.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount
RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088799
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Move cfg_log_verbose check before calling lpfc_dmp_dbg()
In an attempt to log message 0126 with LOG_TRACE_EVENT, the following hard
lockup call trace hangs the system.
Call Trace:
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x32/0x40
lpfc_dmp_dbg.part.32+0x28/0x220 [lpfc]
lpfc_cmpl_els_fdisc+0x145/0x460 [lpfc]
lpfc_sli_cancel_jobs+0x92/0xd0 [lpfc]
lpfc_els_flush_cmd+0x43c/0x670 [lpfc]
lpfc_els_flush_all_cmd+0x37/0x60 [lpfc]
lpfc_sli4_async_event_proc+0x956/0x1720 [lpfc]
lpfc_do_work+0x1485/0x1d70 [lpfc]
kthread+0x112/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
The same CPU tries to claim the phba->port_list_lock twice.
Move the cfg_log_verbose checks as part of the lpfc_printf_vlog() and
lpfc_printf_log() macros before calling lpfc_dmp_dbg(). There is no need
to take the phba->port_list_lock within lpfc_dmp_dbg().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath11k: fix the warning of dev_wake in mhi_pm_disable_transition()
When test device recovery with below command, it has warning in message
as below.
echo assert > /sys/kernel/debug/ath11k/wcn6855\ hw2.0/simulate_fw_crash
echo assert > /sys/kernel/debug/ath11k/qca6390\ hw2.0/simulate_fw_crash
warning message:
[ 1965.642121] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: simulating firmware assert crash
[ 1968.471364] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
[ 1968.511305] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1968.511368] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1546 at drivers/bus/mhi/core/pm.c:505 mhi_pm_disable_transition+0xb37/0xda0 [mhi]
[ 1968.511443] Modules linked in: ath11k_pci ath11k mac80211 libarc4 cfg80211 qmi_helpers qrtr_mhi mhi qrtr nvme nvme_core
[ 1968.511563] CPU: 3 PID: 1546 Comm: kworker/u17:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc3-wt-ath+ #579
[ 1968.511629] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7HVK/NUC8i7HVB, BIOS HNKBLi70.86A.0067.2021.0528.1339 05/28/2021
[ 1968.511704] Workqueue: mhi_hiprio_wq mhi_pm_st_worker [mhi]
[ 1968.511787] RIP: 0010:mhi_pm_disable_transition+0xb37/0xda0 [mhi]
[ 1968.511870] Code: a9 fe ff ff 4c 89 ff 44 89 04 24 e8 03 46 f6 e5 44 8b 04 24 41 83 f8 01 0f 84 21 fe ff ff e9 4c fd ff ff 0f 0b e9 af f8 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 5c f8 ff ff 48 89 df e8 da 9e ee e3 e9 12 fd ff ff 4c 89
[ 1968.511923] RSP: 0018:ffffc900024efbf0 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1968.511969] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: ffff88811d241250 RCX: ffffffffc0176922
[ 1968.512014] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888118a90a24
[ 1968.512059] RBP: ffff888118a90800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff888118a90a27
[ 1968.512102] R10: ffffed1023152144 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888118a908ac
[ 1968.512229] R13: ffff888118a90928 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff888118a90a24
[ 1968.512310] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888234200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1968.512405] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1968.512493] CR2: 00007f5538f443a8 CR3: 000000016dc28001 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[ 1968.512587] Call Trace:
[ 1968.512672] <TASK>
[ 1968.512751] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x1f/0x40
[ 1968.512859] mhi_pm_st_worker+0x3ac/0x790 [mhi]
[ 1968.512959] ? mhi_pm_mission_mode_transition.isra.0+0x7d0/0x7d0 [mhi]
[ 1968.513063] process_one_work+0x86a/0x1400
[ 1968.513184] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230
[ 1968.513312] ? move_linked_works+0x125/0x290
[ 1968.513416] worker_thread+0x6db/0xf60
[ 1968.513536] ? process_one_work+0x1400/0x1400
[ 1968.513627] kthread+0x241/0x2d0
[ 1968.513733] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 1968.513821] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 1968.513924] </TASK>
Reason is mhi_deassert_dev_wake() from mhi_device_put() is called
but mhi_assert_dev_wake() from __mhi_device_get_sync() is not called
in progress of recovery. Commit 8e0559921f9a ("bus: mhi: core:
Skip device wake in error or shutdown state") add check for the
pm_state of mhi in __mhi_device_get_sync(), and the pm_state is not
the normal state untill recovery is completed, so it leads the
dev_wake is not 0 and above warning print in mhi_pm_disable_transition()
while checking mhi_cntrl->dev_wake.
Add check in ath11k_pci_write32()/ath11k_pci_read32() to skip call
mhi_device_put() if mhi_device_get_sync() does not really do wake,
then the warning gone.
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03003-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-2
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()
crypt and crypt->ops could be null, so we need to checking null
before dereference
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Cancel pending work at closing a MIDI substream
At closing a USB MIDI output substream, there might be still a pending
work, which would eventually access the rawmidi runtime object that is
being released. For fixing the race, make sure to cancel the pending
work at closing.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
This is reported by kmemleak detector:
unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096):
comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............
04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>.............
backtrace:
[<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170
[<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160
[<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0
[<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470
[<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0
[<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0
[<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0
[<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530
[<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to
store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when
kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it
by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(),
and freeing the buffer there.
And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before
calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has
been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make
sense to free the elf header buffer in the place.
Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on
x86_64 inside Redhat.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix deadlock between concurrent dio writes when low on free data space
When reserving data space for a direct IO write we can end up deadlocking
if we have multiple tasks attempting a write to the same file range, there
are multiple extents covered by that file range, we are low on available
space for data and the writes don't expand the inode's i_size.
The deadlock can happen like this:
1) We have a file with an i_size of 1M, at offset 0 it has an extent with
a size of 128K and at offset 128K it has another extent also with a
size of 128K;
2) Task A does a direct IO write against file range [0, 256K), and because
the write is within the i_size boundary, it takes the inode's lock (VFS
level) in shared mode;
3) Task A locks the file range [0, 256K) at btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(), and
then gets the extent map for the extent covering the range [0, 128K).
At btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write(), it creates an ordered extent for
that file range ([0, 128K));
4) Before returning from btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(), it unlocks the file
range [0, 256K);
5) Task A executes btrfs_dio_iomap_begin() again, this time for the file
range [128K, 256K), and locks the file range [128K, 256K);
6) Task B starts a direct IO write against file range [0, 256K) as well.
It also locks the inode in shared mode, as it's within the i_size limit,
and then tries to lock file range [0, 256K). It is able to lock the
subrange [0, 128K) but then blocks waiting for the range [128K, 256K),
as it is currently locked by task A;
7) Task A enters btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write() and tries to reserve data
space. Because we are low on available free space, it triggers the
async data reclaim task, and waits for it to reserve data space;
8) The async reclaim task decides to wait for all existing ordered extents
to complete (through btrfs_wait_ordered_roots()).
It finds the ordered extent previously created by task A for the file
range [0, 128K) and waits for it to complete;
9) The ordered extent for the file range [0, 128K) can not complete
because it blocks at btrfs_finish_ordered_io() when trying to lock the
file range [0, 128K).
This results in a deadlock, because:
- task B is holding the file range [0, 128K) locked, waiting for the
range [128K, 256K) to be unlocked by task A;
- task A is holding the file range [128K, 256K) locked and it's waiting
for the async data reclaim task to satisfy its space reservation
request;
- the async data reclaim task is waiting for ordered extent [0, 128K)
to complete, but the ordered extent can not complete because the
file range [0, 128K) is currently locked by task B, which is waiting
on task A to unlock file range [128K, 256K) and task A waiting
on the async data reclaim task.
This results in a deadlock between 4 task: task A, task B, the async
data reclaim task and the task doing ordered extent completion (a work
queue task).
This type of deadlock can sporadically be triggered by the test case
generic/300 from fstests, and results in a stack trace like the following:
[12084.033689] INFO: task kworker/u16:7:123749 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
[12084.034877] Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2-btrfs-next-115 #1
[12084.035562] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[12084.036548] task:kworker/u16:7 state:D stack: 0 pid:123749 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
[12084.036554] Workqueue: btrfs-flush_delalloc btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
[12084.036599] Call Trace:
[12084.036601] <TASK>
[12084.036606] __schedule+0x3cb/0xed0
[12084.036616] schedule+0x4e/0xb0
[12084.036620] btrfs_start_ordered_extent+0x109/0x1c0 [btrfs]
[12084.036651] ? prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0xc0/0xc0
[12084.036659] btrfs_run_ordered_extent_work+0x1a/0x30 [btrfs]
[12084.036688] btrfs_work_helper+0xf8/0x400 [btrfs]
[12084.0367
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26