Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watchdog: ts4800_wdt: Fix refcount leak in ts4800_wdt_probe
of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done.
Add missing of_node_put() in some error paths.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/papr_scm: don't requests stats with '0' sized stats buffer
Sachin reported [1] that on a POWER-10 lpar he is seeing a kernel panic being
reported with vPMEM when papr_scm probe is being called. The panic is of the
form below and is observed only with following option disabled(profile) for the
said LPAR 'Enable Performance Information Collection' in the HMC:
Kernel attempted to write user page (1c) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on write at 0x0000001c
Faulting instruction address: 0xc008000001b90844
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
<snip>
NIP [c008000001b90844] drc_pmem_query_stats+0x5c/0x270 [papr_scm]
LR [c008000001b92794] papr_scm_probe+0x2ac/0x6ec [papr_scm]
Call Trace:
0xc00000000941bca0 (unreliable)
papr_scm_probe+0x2ac/0x6ec [papr_scm]
platform_probe+0x98/0x150
really_probe+0xfc/0x510
__driver_probe_device+0x17c/0x230
<snip>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
On investigation looks like this panic was caused due to a 'stat_buffer' of
size==0 being provided to drc_pmem_query_stats() to fetch all performance
stats-ids of an NVDIMM. However drc_pmem_query_stats() shouldn't have been called
since the vPMEM NVDIMM doesn't support and performance stat-id's. This was caused
due to missing check for 'p->stat_buffer_len' at the beginning of
papr_scm_pmu_check_events() which indicates that the NVDIMM doesn't support
performance-stats.
Fix this by introducing the check for 'p->stat_buffer_len' at the beginning of
papr_scm_pmu_check_events().
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/6B3A522A-6A5F-4CC9-B268-0C63AA6E07D3@linux.ibm.com
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: pata_octeon_cf: Fix refcount leak in octeon_cf_probe
of_find_device_by_node() takes reference, we should use put_device()
to release it when not need anymore.
Add missing put_device() to avoid refcount leak.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: Trap RDMA segment overflows
Prevent svc_rdma_build_writes() from walking off the end of a Write
chunk's segment array. Caught with KASAN.
The test that this fix replaces is invalid, and might have been left
over from an earlier prototype of the PCL work.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs
On Apple T2 Macs, when Linux attempts to read the db and dbx efi variables
at early boot to load UEFI Secure Boot certificates, a page fault occurs
in Apple firmware code and EFI runtime services are disabled with the
following logs:
[Firmware Bug]: Page fault caused by firmware at PA: 0xffffb1edc0068000
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 104 at arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c:735 efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault+0x50/0xf0
(Removed some logs from here)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
page_fault_oops+0x4f/0x2c0
? search_bpf_extables+0x6b/0x80
? search_module_extables+0x50/0x80
? search_exception_tables+0x5b/0x60
kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x9e/0x110
__bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x190
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20
do_kern_addr_fault+0x8c/0xa0
exc_page_fault+0xd8/0x180
asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
(Removed some logs from here)
? __efi_call+0x28/0x30
? switch_mm+0x20/0x30
? efi_call_rts+0x19a/0x8e0
? process_one_work+0x222/0x3f0
? worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0
? kthread+0x17a/0x1a0
? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>
---[ end trace 1f82023595a5927f ]---
efi: Froze efi_rts_wq and disabled EFI Runtime Services
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list
efi: EFI Runtime Services are disabled!
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: Couldn't get UEFI dbx list
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: Couldn't get mokx list
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x80000000
So we avoid reading these UEFI variables and thus prevent the crash.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: memleak flow rule from commit path
Abort path release flow rule object, however, commit path does not.
Update code to destroy these objects before releasing the transaction.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/panfrost: Job should reference MMU not file_priv
For a while now it's been allowed for a MMU context to outlive it's
corresponding panfrost_priv, however the job structure still references
panfrost_priv to get hold of the MMU context. If panfrost_priv has been
freed this is a use-after-free which I've been able to trigger resulting
in a splat.
To fix this, drop the reference to panfrost_priv in the job structure
and add a direct reference to the MMU structure which is what's actually
needed.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on total_data_blocks
As Yanming reported in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215916
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2560!
Call Trace:
allocate_segment_by_default+0x228/0x440
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x13d1/0x31f0
do_write_page+0x18d/0x710
f2fs_outplace_write_data+0x151/0x250
f2fs_do_write_data_page+0xef9/0x1980
move_data_page+0x6af/0xbc0
do_garbage_collect+0x312f/0x46f0
f2fs_gc+0x6b0/0x3bc0
f2fs_balance_fs+0x921/0x2260
f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x16be/0x2370
f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x428/0xd00
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x96e/0xd50
do_writepages+0x168/0x550
__writeback_single_inode+0x9f/0x870
writeback_sb_inodes+0x47d/0xb20
__writeback_inodes_wb+0xb2/0x200
wb_writeback+0x4bd/0x660
wb_workfn+0x5f3/0xab0
process_one_work+0x79f/0x13e0
worker_thread+0x89/0xf60
kthread+0x26a/0x300
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0xe8d/0x15f0
The root cause is: ckpt.valid_block_count is inconsistent with SIT table,
stat info indicates filesystem has free blocks, but SIT table indicates
filesystem has no free segment.
So that during garbage colloection, it triggers panic when LFS allocator
fails to find free segment.
This patch tries to fix this issue by checking consistency in between
ckpt.valid_block_count and block accounted from SIT.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check for inline inode
Yanming reported a kernel bug in Bugzilla kernel [1], which can be
reproduced. The bug message is:
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:611!
Call Trace:
evict+0x282/0x4e0
__dentry_kill+0x2b2/0x4d0
dput+0x2dd/0x720
do_renameat2+0x596/0x970
__x64_sys_rename+0x78/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215895
The bug is due to fuzzed inode has both inline_data and encrypted flags.
During f2fs_evict_inode(), as the inode was deleted by rename(), it
will cause inline data conversion due to conflicting flags. The page
cache will be polluted and the panic will be triggered in clear_inode().
Try fixing the bug by doing more sanity checks for inline data inode in
sanity_check_inode().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Fix potential use-after-free in nfsd_file_put()
nfsd_file_put_noref() can free @nf, so don't dereference @nf
immediately upon return from nfsd_file_put_noref().