Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ep93xx: clock: Fix UAF in ep93xx_clk_register_gate()
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c:154:2: warning: Use of memory after it is freed [clang-analyzer-unix.Malloc]
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c:151:2: note: Taking true branch
if (IS_ERR(clk))
^
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c:152:3: note: Memory is released
kfree(psc);
^~~~~~~~~~
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c:154:2: note: Use of memory after it is freed
return &psc->hw;
^ ~~~~~~~~
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/pm: fix a potential gpu_metrics_table memory leak
Memory is allocated for gpu_metrics_table in renoir_init_smc_tables(),
but not freed in int smu_v12_0_fini_smc_tables(). Free it!
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: davinci: vpif: fix use-after-free on driver unbind
The driver allocates and registers two platform device structures during
probe, but the devices were never deregistered on driver unbind.
This results in a use-after-free on driver unbind as the device
structures were allocated using devres and would be freed by driver
core when remove() returns.
Fix this by adding the missing deregistration calls to the remove()
callback and failing probe on registration errors.
Note that the platform device structures must be freed using a proper
release callback to avoid leaking associated resources like device
names.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
samples/landlock: Fix path_list memory leak
Clang static analysis reports this error
sandboxer.c:134:8: warning: Potential leak of memory
pointed to by 'path_list'
ret = 0;
^
path_list is allocated in parse_path() but never freed.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: venus: vdec: fixed possible memory leak issue
The venus_helper_alloc_dpb_bufs() implementation allows an early return
on an error path when checking the id from ida_alloc_min() which would
not release the earlier buffer allocation.
Move the direct kfree() from the error checking of dma_alloc_attrs() to
the common fail path to ensure that allocations are released on all
error paths in this function.
Addresses-Coverity: 1494120 ("Resource leak")
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem
When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
jffs2_do_fill_super().
Finally we can observe the following report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
do_mount+0x107/0x130
__se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
__x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Allocated by task 719:
kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]
Freed by task 719:
kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0
jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8
which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48
The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of
48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)
[...]
==================================================================
The triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack:
-----------------------------------------------------------
jffs2_fill_super
jffs2_do_fill_super
jffs2_do_mount_fs
jffs2_build_filesystem
jffs2_scan_medium
jffs2_scan_eraseblock <--- ERROR
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free again
-----------------------------------------------------------
An error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned
by jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to
be executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again.
So move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root'
to fix this UAF problem.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/virtio: Ensure that objs is not NULL in virtio_gpu_array_put_free()
If virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() fails (e.g. due to fault injection, as it
happened in the bug report by syzbot), virtio_gpu_array_put_free() could be
called with objs equal to NULL.
Ensure that objs is not NULL in virtio_gpu_array_put_free(), or otherwise
return from the function.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Fix some memory leaks in an error handling path of 'log_replay()'
All error handling paths lead to 'out' where many resources are freed.
Do it as well here instead of a direct return, otherwise 'log', 'ra' and
'log->one_page_buf' (at least) will leak.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc
Move some code out of zr36057_init() and create new functions for handling
zr->video_dev. This permit to ease code reading and fix a zr->video_dev
memory leak.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: staging: media: zoran: calculate the right buffer number for zoran_reap_stat_com
On the case tmp_dcim=1, the index of buffer is miscalculated.
This generate a NULL pointer dereference later.
So let's fix the calcul and add a check to prevent this to reappear.