Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mxser: fix xmit_buf leak in activate when LSR == 0xff
When LSR is 0xff in ->activate() (rather unlike), we return an error.
Provided ->shutdown() is not called when ->activate() fails, nothing
actually frees the buffer in this case.
Fix this by properly freeing the buffer in a designated label. We jump
there also from the "!info->type" if now too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: ethernet: cpsw: fix panic when interrupt coaleceing is set via ethtool
cpsw_ethtool_begin directly returns the result of pm_runtime_get_sync
when successful.
pm_runtime_get_sync returns -error code on failure and 0 on successful
resume but also 1 when the device is already active. So the common case
for cpsw_ethtool_begin is to return 1. That leads to inconsistent calls
to pm_runtime_put in the call-chain so that pm_runtime_put is called
one too many times and as result leaving the cpsw dev behind suspended.
The suspended cpsw dev leads to an access violation later on by
different parts of the cpsw driver.
Fix this by calling the return-friendly pm_runtime_resume_and_get
function.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix 'scheduling while atomic' on aux critical err interrupt
There's a kernel BUG splat on processing aux critical error
interrupts in ice_misc_intr():
[ 2100.917085] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/15/0/0x00010000
...
[ 2101.060770] Call Trace:
[ 2101.063229] <IRQ>
[ 2101.065252] dump_stack+0x41/0x60
[ 2101.068587] __schedule_bug.cold.100+0x4c/0x58
[ 2101.073060] __schedule+0x6a4/0x830
[ 2101.076570] schedule+0x35/0xa0
[ 2101.079727] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10
[ 2101.084284] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420
[ 2101.088580] ? ice_misc_intr+0x201/0x2e0 [ice]
[ 2101.093078] ice_send_event_to_aux+0x25/0x70 [ice]
[ 2101.097921] ice_misc_intr+0x220/0x2e0 [ice]
[ 2101.102232] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0x180
[ 2101.106965] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x80
[ 2101.111434] handle_irq_event+0x36/0x53
[ 2101.115292] handle_edge_irq+0x82/0x190
[ 2101.119148] handle_irq+0x1c/0x30
[ 2101.122480] do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0
[ 2101.125465] common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
[ 2101.129146] </IRQ>
...
As Andrew correctly mentioned previously[0], the following call
ladder happens:
ice_misc_intr() <- hardirq
ice_send_event_to_aux()
device_lock()
mutex_lock()
might_sleep()
might_resched() <- oops
Add a new PF state bit which indicates that an aux critical error
occurred and serve it in ice_service_task() in process context.
The new ice_pf::oicr_err_reg is read-write in both hardirq and
process contexts, but only 3 bits of non-critical data probably
aren't worth explicit synchronizing (and they're even in the same
byte [31:24]).
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YeSRUVmrdmlUXHDn@lunn.ch
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering
GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
this is causing problems like:
[ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit queue 1 timed out
[ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529 dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
[ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
[ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
[ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read perf counters
[ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
[ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
[ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27: ffff8000080a3b20
[ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffcd425af8ec08
[ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21: ffff55b142688000
[ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 6d736e617274203a
[ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12: ffffcd425b07d5f0
[ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 : ffffcd4258bdad9c
[ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000001000
[ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 : 0000000000000044
[ 210.269682] Call trace:
[ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
[ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
[ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
[ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
[ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
[ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
[ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
[ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
[ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
[ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
[ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
[ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
[ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
[ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
[ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
[ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
(spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
reads/write operations.
Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
everywhere.
Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
any performance problems
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: fix panic on shutdown if multi-chip tree failed to probe
DSA probing is atypical because a tree of devices must probe all at
once, so out of N switches which call dsa_tree_setup_routing_table()
during probe, for (N - 1) of them, "complete" will return false and they
will exit probing early. The Nth switch will set up the whole tree on
their behalf.
The implication is that for (N - 1) switches, the driver binds to the
device successfully, without doing anything. When the driver is bound,
the ->shutdown() method may run. But if the Nth switch has failed to
initialize the tree, there is nothing to do for the (N - 1) driver
instances, since the slave devices have not been created, etc. Moreover,
dsa_switch_shutdown() expects that the calling @ds has been in fact
initialized, so it jumps at dereferencing the various data structures,
which is incorrect.
Avoid the ensuing NULL pointer dereferences by simply checking whether
the Nth switch has previously set "ds->setup = true" for the switch
which is currently shutting down. The entire setup is serialized under
dsa2_mutex which we already hold.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()
In remove_phb_dynamic() we use &phb->io_resource, after we've called
device_unregister(&host_bridge->dev). But the unregister may have freed
phb, because pcibios_free_controller_deferred() is the release function
for the host_bridge.
If there are no outstanding references when we call device_unregister()
then phb will be freed out from under us.
This has gone mainly unnoticed, but with slub_debug and page_poison
enabled it can lead to a crash:
PID: 7574 TASK: c0000000d492cb80 CPU: 13 COMMAND: "drmgr"
#0 [c0000000e4f075a0] crash_kexec at c00000000027d7dc
#1 [c0000000e4f075d0] oops_end at c000000000029608
#2 [c0000000e4f07650] __bad_page_fault at c0000000000904b4
#3 [c0000000e4f076c0] do_bad_slb_fault at c00000000009a5a8
#4 [c0000000e4f076f0] data_access_slb_common_virt at c000000000008b30
Data SLB Access [380] exception frame:
R0: c000000000167250 R1: c0000000e4f07a00 R2: c000000002a46100
R3: c000000002b39ce8 R4: 00000000000000c0 R5: 00000000000000a9
R6: 3894674d000000c0 R7: 0000000000000000 R8: 00000000000000ff
R9: 0000000000000100 R10: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R11: 0000000000008000
R12: c00000000023da80 R13: c0000009ffd38b00 R14: 0000000000000000
R15: 000000011c87f0f0 R16: 0000000000000006 R17: 0000000000000003
R18: 0000000000000002 R19: 0000000000000004 R20: 0000000000000005
R21: 000000011c87ede8 R22: 000000011c87c5a8 R23: 000000011c87d3a0
R24: 0000000000000000 R25: 0000000000000001 R26: c0000000e4f07cc8
R27: c00000004d1cc400 R28: c0080000031d00e8 R29: c00000004d23d800
R30: c00000004d1d2400 R31: c00000004d1d2540
NIP: c000000000167258 MSR: 8000000000009033 OR3: c000000000e9f474
CTR: 0000000000000000 LR: c000000000167250 XER: 0000000020040003
CCR: 0000000024088420 MQ: 0000000000000000 DAR: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6ba3
DSISR: c0000000e4f07920 Syscall Result: fffffffffffffff2
[NIP : release_resource+56]
[LR : release_resource+48]
#5 [c0000000e4f07a00] release_resource at c000000000167258 (unreliable)
#6 [c0000000e4f07a30] remove_phb_dynamic at c000000000105648
#7 [c0000000e4f07ab0] dlpar_remove_slot at c0080000031a09e8 [rpadlpar_io]
#8 [c0000000e4f07b50] remove_slot_store at c0080000031a0b9c [rpadlpar_io]
#9 [c0000000e4f07be0] kobj_attr_store at c000000000817d8c
#10 [c0000000e4f07c00] sysfs_kf_write at c00000000063e504
#11 [c0000000e4f07c20] kernfs_fop_write_iter at c00000000063d868
#12 [c0000000e4f07c70] new_sync_write at c00000000054339c
#13 [c0000000e4f07d10] vfs_write at c000000000546624
#14 [c0000000e4f07d60] ksys_write at c0000000005469f4
#15 [c0000000e4f07db0] system_call_exception at c000000000030840
#16 [c0000000e4f07e10] system_call_vectored_common at c00000000000c168
To avoid it, we can take a reference to the host_bridge->dev until we're
done using phb. Then when we drop the reference the phb will be freed.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_netlink: Fix shift out of bounds in group mask calculation
When a netlink message is received, netlink_recvmsg() fills in the address
of the sender. One of the fields is the 32-bit bitfield nl_groups, which
carries the multicast group on which the message was received. The least
significant bit corresponds to group 1, and therefore the highest group
that the field can represent is 32. Above that, the UB sanitizer flags the
out-of-bounds shift attempts.
Which bits end up being set in such case is implementation defined, but
it's either going to be a wrong non-zero value, or zero, which is at least
not misleading. Make the latter choice deterministic by always setting to 0
for higher-numbered multicast groups.
To get information about membership in groups >= 32, userspace is expected
to use nl_pktinfo control messages[0], which are enabled by NETLINK_PKTINFO
socket option.
[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/147608/
The way to trigger this issue is e.g. through monitoring the BRVLAN group:
# bridge monitor vlan &
# ip link add name br type bridge
Which produces the following citation:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/netlink/af_netlink.c:162:19
shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: Fix crash due to tcp_tsorted_anchor was initialized before release skb
Got crash when doing pressure test of mptcp:
===========================================================================
dst_release: dst:ffffa06ce6e5c058 refcnt:-1
kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffa06ce6e5c058
PGD 190a01067 P4D 190a01067 PUD 43fffb067 PMD 22e403063 PTE 8000000226e5c063
Oops: 0011 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 7823 Comm: kworker/7:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.2.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
? skb_release_head_state+0x68/0x100
? skb_release_all+0xe/0x30
? kfree_skb+0x32/0xa0
? mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0x57e/0x750
? __mptcp_retrans+0x21b/0x3c0
? __switch_to_asm+0x35/0x70
? mptcp_worker+0x25e/0x320
? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
? worker_thread+0x30/0x390
? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
? kthread+0x112/0x130
? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
===========================================================================
In __mptcp_alloc_tx_skb skb was allocated and skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor will
be initialized, in under memory pressure situation sk_wmem_schedule will
return false and then kfree_skb. In this case skb->_skb_refdst is not null
because_skb_refdst and tcp_tsorted_anchor are stored in the same mem, and
kfree_skb will try to release dst and cause crash.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/nldev: Prevent underflow in nldev_stat_set_counter_dynamic_doit()
This code checks "index" for an upper bound but it does not check for
negatives. Change the type to unsigned to prevent underflows.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block, bfq: don't move oom_bfqq
Our test report a UAF:
[ 2073.019181] ==================================================================
[ 2073.019188] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0xa0/0x168
[ 2073.019191] Write of size 8 at addr ffff8000ccf64128 by task rmmod/72584
[ 2073.019192]
[ 2073.019196] CPU: 0 PID: 72584 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.19.90-yk #5
[ 2073.019198] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[ 2073.019200] Call trace:
[ 2073.019203] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x310
[ 2073.019206] show_stack+0x28/0x38
[ 2073.019210] dump_stack+0xec/0x15c
[ 2073.019216] print_address_description+0x68/0x2d0
[ 2073.019220] kasan_report+0x238/0x2f0
[ 2073.019224] __asan_store8+0x88/0xb0
[ 2073.019229] __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0xa0/0x168
[ 2073.019233] bfq_put_async_queues+0xbc/0x208
[ 2073.019236] bfq_pd_offline+0x178/0x238
[ 2073.019240] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x1f0/0x420
[ 2073.019244] bfq_exit_queue+0x128/0x178
[ 2073.019249] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x12c/0x160
[ 2073.019252] elevator_exit+0xc8/0xd0
[ 2073.019256] blk_exit_queue+0x50/0x88
[ 2073.019259] blk_cleanup_queue+0x228/0x3d8
[ 2073.019267] null_del_dev+0xfc/0x1e0 [null_blk]
[ 2073.019274] null_exit+0x90/0x114 [null_blk]
[ 2073.019278] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x358/0x5a0
[ 2073.019282] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320
[ 2073.019287] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
[ 2073.019290] el0_svc+0x10/0x218
[ 2073.019291]
[ 2073.019294] Allocated by task 14163:
[ 2073.019301] kasan_kmalloc+0xe0/0x190
[ 2073.019305] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x1cc/0x418
[ 2073.019308] bfq_pd_alloc+0x54/0x118
[ 2073.019313] blkcg_activate_policy+0x250/0x460
[ 2073.019317] bfq_create_group_hierarchy+0x38/0x110
[ 2073.019321] bfq_init_queue+0x6d0/0x948
[ 2073.019325] blk_mq_init_sched+0x1d8/0x390
[ 2073.019330] elevator_switch_mq+0x88/0x170
[ 2073.019334] elevator_switch+0x140/0x270
[ 2073.019338] elv_iosched_store+0x1a4/0x2a0
[ 2073.019342] queue_attr_store+0x90/0xe0
[ 2073.019348] sysfs_kf_write+0xa8/0xe8
[ 2073.019351] kernfs_fop_write+0x1f8/0x378
[ 2073.019359] __vfs_write+0xe0/0x360
[ 2073.019363] vfs_write+0xf0/0x270
[ 2073.019367] ksys_write+0xdc/0x1b8
[ 2073.019371] __arm64_sys_write+0x50/0x60
[ 2073.019375] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320
[ 2073.019380] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
[ 2073.019383] el0_svc+0x10/0x218
[ 2073.019385]
[ 2073.019387] Freed by task 72584:
[ 2073.019391] __kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x228
[ 2073.019394] kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
[ 2073.019397] kfree+0x94/0x368
[ 2073.019400] bfqg_put+0x64/0xb0
[ 2073.019404] bfqg_and_blkg_put+0x90/0xb0
[ 2073.019408] bfq_put_queue+0x220/0x228
[ 2073.019413] __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0x98/0x168
[ 2073.019416] bfq_put_async_queues+0xbc/0x208
[ 2073.019420] bfq_pd_offline+0x178/0x238
[ 2073.019424] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x1f0/0x420
[ 2073.019429] bfq_exit_queue+0x128/0x178
[ 2073.019433] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x12c/0x160
[ 2073.019437] elevator_exit+0xc8/0xd0
[ 2073.019440] blk_exit_queue+0x50/0x88
[ 2073.019443] blk_cleanup_queue+0x228/0x3d8
[ 2073.019451] null_del_dev+0xfc/0x1e0 [null_blk]
[ 2073.019459] null_exit+0x90/0x114 [null_blk]
[ 2073.019462] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x358/0x5a0
[ 2073.019467] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320
[ 2073.019471] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
[ 2073.019474] el0_svc+0x10/0x218
[ 2073.019475]
[ 2073.019479] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8000ccf63f00
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1024 of size 1024
[ 2073.019484] The buggy address is located 552 bytes inside of
1024-byte region [ffff8000ccf63f00, ffff8000ccf64300)
[ 2073.019486] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[ 2073.019492] page:ffff7e000333d800 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8000c0003a00 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
[ 2073.020123] flags: 0x7ffff0000008100(slab|head)
[ 2073.020403] raw: 07ffff0000008100 ffff7e0003334c08 ffff7e00001f5a08 ffff8000c0003a00
[ 2073.020409] ra
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26