Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubi: ubi_create_volume: Fix use-after-free when volume creation failed
There is an use-after-free problem for 'eba_tbl' in ubi_create_volume()'s
error handling path:
ubi_eba_replace_table(vol, eba_tbl)
vol->eba_tbl = tbl
out_mapping:
ubi_eba_destroy_table(eba_tbl) // Free 'eba_tbl'
out_unlock:
put_device(&vol->dev)
vol_release
kfree(tbl->entries) // UAF
Fix it by removing redundant 'eba_tbl' releasing.
Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe()
usb_get_dev() is called in stub_device_alloc(). When stub_probe() fails
after that, usb_put_dev() needs to be called to release the reference.
Fix this by moving usb_put_dev() to sdev_free error path handling.
Find this by code review.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
macsec: fix UAF bug for real_dev
Create a new macsec device but not get reference to real_dev. That can
not ensure that real_dev is freed after macsec. That will trigger the
UAF bug for real_dev as following:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
Call Trace:
...
macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
dev_get_iflink+0x73/0xe0 net/core/dev.c:637
default_operstate net/core/link_watch.c:42 [inline]
rfc2863_policy+0x233/0x2d0 net/core/link_watch.c:54
linkwatch_do_dev+0x2a/0x150 net/core/link_watch.c:161
Allocated by task 22209:
...
alloc_netdev_mqs+0x98/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10549
rtnl_create_link+0x9d7/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3235
veth_newlink+0x20e/0xa90 drivers/net/veth.c:1748
Freed by task 8:
...
kfree+0xd6/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4552
kvfree+0x42/0x50 mm/util.c:615
device_release+0x9f/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2229
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:673 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:704 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x1c8/0x540 lib/kobject.c:721
netdev_run_todo+0x72e/0x10b0 net/core/dev.c:10327
After commit faab39f63c1f ("net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration")
and commit e5f80fcf869a ("ipv6: give an IPv6 dev to blackhole_netdev"), we
can add dev_hold_track() in macsec_dev_init() and dev_put_track() in
macsec_free_netdev() to fix the problem.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
remoteproc: mtk_scp: Fix a potential double free
'scp->rproc' is allocated using devm_rproc_alloc(), so there is no need
to free it explicitly in the remove function.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: Fix potential NULL dereference in aspeed_vuart_probe
platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should
better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: fastrpc: fix list iterator in fastrpc_req_mem_unmap_impl
This is another instance of incorrect use of list iterator and
checking it for NULL.
The list iterator value 'map' will *always* be set and non-NULL
by list_for_each_entry(), so it is incorrect to assume that the
iterator value will be NULL if the list is empty (in this case, the
check 'if (!map) {' will always be false and never exit as expected).
To fix the bug, use a new variable 'iter' as the list iterator,
while use the original variable 'map' as a dedicated pointer to
point to the found element.
Without this patch, Kernel crashes with below trace:
Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines
at virtual address 0000ffff7fb03750
...
Call trace:
fastrpc_map_create+0x70/0x290 [fastrpc]
fastrpc_req_mem_map+0xf0/0x2dc [fastrpc]
fastrpc_device_ioctl+0x138/0xc60 [fastrpc]
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd4/0xfc
do_el0_svc+0x28/0x90
el0_svc+0x3c/0x130
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
Code: 14000016 f94000a5 eb05029f 54000260 (b94018a6)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-iolatency: Fix inflight count imbalances and IO hangs on offline
iolatency needs to track the number of inflight IOs per cgroup. As this
tracking can be expensive, it is disabled when no cgroup has iolatency
configured for the device. To ensure that the inflight counters stay
balanced, iolatency_set_limit() freezes the request_queue while manipulating
the enabled counter, which ensures that no IO is in flight and thus all
counters are zero.
Unfortunately, iolatency_set_limit() isn't the only place where the enabled
counter is manipulated. iolatency_pd_offline() can also dec the counter and
trigger disabling. As this disabling happens without freezing the q, this
can easily happen while some IOs are in flight and thus leak the counts.
This can be easily demonstrated by turning on iolatency on an one empty
cgroup while IOs are in flight in other cgroups and then removing the
cgroup. Note that iolatency shouldn't have been enabled elsewhere in the
system to ensure that removing the cgroup disables iolatency for the whole
device.
The following keeps flipping on and off iolatency on sda:
echo +io > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
while true; do
mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/test
echo '8:0 target=100000' > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/io.latency
sleep 1
rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
sleep 1
done
and there's concurrent fio generating direct rand reads:
fio --name test --filename=/dev/sda --direct=1 --rw=randread \
--runtime=600 --time_based --iodepth=256 --numjobs=4 --bs=4k
while monitoring with the following drgn script:
while True:
for css in css_for_each_descendant_pre(prog['blkcg_root'].css.address_of_()):
for pos in hlist_for_each(container_of(css, 'struct blkcg', 'css').blkg_list):
blkg = container_of(pos, 'struct blkcg_gq', 'blkcg_node')
pd = blkg.pd[prog['blkcg_policy_iolatency'].plid]
if pd.value_() == 0:
continue
iolat = container_of(pd, 'struct iolatency_grp', 'pd')
inflight = iolat.rq_wait.inflight.counter.value_()
if inflight:
print(f'inflight={inflight} {disk_name(blkg.q.disk).decode("utf-8")} '
f'{cgroup_path(css.cgroup).decode("utf-8")}')
time.sleep(1)
The monitoring output looks like the following:
inflight=1 sda /user.slice
inflight=1 sda /user.slice
...
inflight=14 sda /user.slice
inflight=13 sda /user.slice
inflight=17 sda /user.slice
inflight=15 sda /user.slice
inflight=18 sda /user.slice
inflight=17 sda /user.slice
inflight=20 sda /user.slice
inflight=19 sda /user.slice <- fio stopped, inflight stuck at 19
inflight=19 sda /user.slice
inflight=19 sda /user.slice
If a cgroup with stuck inflight ends up getting throttled, the throttled IOs
will never get issued as there's no completion event to wake it up leading
to an indefinite hang.
This patch fixes the bug by unifying enable handling into a work item which
is automatically kicked off from iolatency_set_min_lat_nsec() which is
called from both iolatency_set_limit() and iolatency_pd_offline() paths.
Punting to a work item is necessary as iolatency_pd_offline() is called
under spinlocks while freezing a request_queue requires a sleepable context.
This also simplifies the code reducing LOC sans the comments and avoids the
unnecessary freezes which were happening whenever a cgroup's latency target
is newly set or cleared.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: check attribute length for bearer name
syzbot reported uninit-value:
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:644 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string+0x4f9/0x6f0 lib/vsprintf.c:725
string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:644 [inline]
string+0x4f9/0x6f0 lib/vsprintf.c:725
vsnprintf+0x2222/0x3650 lib/vsprintf.c:2806
vprintk_store+0x537/0x2150 kernel/printk/printk.c:2158
vprintk_emit+0x28b/0xab0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2256
vprintk_default+0x86/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2283
vprintk+0x15f/0x180 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:50
_printk+0x18d/0x1cf kernel/printk/printk.c:2293
tipc_enable_bearer net/tipc/bearer.c:371 [inline]
__tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x2022/0x22a0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1033
tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x6c/0xb0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1042
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:731 [inline]
- Do sanity check the attribute length for TIPC_NLA_BEARER_NAME.
- Do not use 'illegal name' in printing message.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: mt6397: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
It will cause null-ptr-deref if platform_get_resource() returns NULL,
we need check the return value.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: sd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
If sd_probe() sees an early error before sdkp->device is initialized,
sd_zbc_release_disk() is called. This causes a NULL pointer dereference
when sd_is_zoned() is called inside that function. Avoid this by removing
the call to sd_zbc_release_disk() in sd_probe() error path.
This change is safe and does not result in zone information memory leakage
because the zone information for a zoned disk is allocated only when
sd_revalidate_disk() is called, at which point sdkp->disk_dev is fully set,
resulting in sd_disk_release() being called when needed to cleanup a disk
zone information using sd_zbc_release_disk().