Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In March 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firewire: fix memory leak for payload of request subaction to IEC 61883-1 FCP region
This patch is fix for Linux kernel v2.6.33 or later.
For request subaction to IEC 61883-1 FCP region, Linux FireWire subsystem
have had an issue of use-after-free. The subsystem allows multiple
user space listeners to the region, while data of the payload was likely
released before the listeners execute read(2) to access to it for copying
to user space.
The issue was fixed by a commit 281e20323ab7 ("firewire: core: fix
use-after-free regression in FCP handler"). The object of payload is
duplicated in kernel space for each listener. When the listener executes
ioctl(2) with FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_RESPONSE request, the object is going to
be released.
However, it causes memory leak since the commit relies on call of
release_request() in drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c. Against the
expectation, the function is never called due to the design of
release_client_resource(). The function delegates release task
to caller when called with non-NULL fourth argument. The implementation
of ioctl_send_response() is the case. It should release the object
explicitly.
This commit fixes the bug.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix NULL pointer in skb_segment_list
Commit 3a1296a38d0c ("net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.")
introduced UDP listifyed GRO. The segmentation relies on frag_list being
untouched when passing through the network stack. This assumption can be
broken sometimes, where frag_list itself gets pulled into linear area,
leaving frag_list being NULL. When this happens it can trigger
following NULL pointer dereference, and panic the kernel. Reverse the
test condition should fix it.
[19185.577801][ C1] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
...
[19185.663775][ C1] RIP: 0010:skb_segment_list+0x1cc/0x390
...
[19185.834644][ C1] Call Trace:
[19185.841730][ C1] <TASK>
[19185.848563][ C1] __udp_gso_segment+0x33e/0x510
[19185.857370][ C1] inet_gso_segment+0x15b/0x3e0
[19185.866059][ C1] skb_mac_gso_segment+0x97/0x110
[19185.874939][ C1] __skb_gso_segment+0xb2/0x160
[19185.883646][ C1] udp_queue_rcv_skb+0xc3/0x1d0
[19185.892319][ C1] udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x75/0x90
[19185.900979][ C1] ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xd2/0x200
[19185.910003][ C1] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x44/0x60
[19185.918757][ C1] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x8b/0xa0
[19185.927834][ C1] process_backlog+0x88/0x130
[19185.935840][ C1] __napi_poll+0x27/0x150
[19185.943447][ C1] net_rx_action+0x27e/0x5f0
[19185.951331][ C1] ? mlx5_cq_tasklet_cb+0x70/0x160 [mlx5_core]
[19185.960848][ C1] __do_softirq+0xbc/0x25d
[19185.968607][ C1] irq_exit_rcu+0x83/0xb0
[19185.976247][ C1] common_interrupt+0x43/0xa0
[19185.984235][ C1] asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
...
[19186.094106][ C1] </TASK>
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/i8259: Mark legacy PIC interrupts with IRQ_LEVEL
Baoquan reported that after triggering a crash the subsequent crash-kernel
fails to boot about half of the time. It triggers a NULL pointer
dereference in the periodic tick code.
This happens because the legacy timer interrupt (IRQ0) is resent in
software which happens in soft interrupt (tasklet) context. In this context
get_irq_regs() returns NULL which leads to the NULL pointer dereference.
The reason for the resend is a spurious APIC interrupt on the IRQ0 vector
which is captured and leads to a resend when the legacy timer interrupt is
enabled. This is wrong because the legacy PIC interrupts are level
triggered and therefore should never be resent in software, but nothing
ever sets the IRQ_LEVEL flag on those interrupts, so the core code does not
know about their trigger type.
Ensure that IRQ_LEVEL is set when the legacy PCI interrupts are set up.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table
While mounting a corrupted filesystem, a signed integer '*xattr_ids' can
become less than zero. This leads to the incorrect computation of 'len'
and 'indexes' values which can cause null-ptr-deref in copy_bio_to_actor()
or out-of-bounds accesses in the next sanity checks inside
squashfs_read_xattr_id_table().
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block, bfq: fix uaf for bfqq in bic_set_bfqq()
After commit 64dc8c732f5c ("block, bfq: fix possible uaf for 'bfqq->bic'"),
bic->bfqq will be accessed in bic_set_bfqq(), however, in some context
bic->bfqq will be freed, and bic_set_bfqq() is called with the freed
bic->bfqq.
Fix the problem by always freeing bfqq after bic_set_bfqq().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: dp83822: Fix null pointer access on DP83825/DP83826 devices
The probe() function is only used for the DP83822 PHY, leaving the
private data pointer uninitialized for the smaller DP83825/26 models.
While all uses of the private data structure are hidden in 82822 specific
callbacks, configuring the interrupt is shared across all models.
This causes a NULL pointer dereference on the smaller PHYs as it accesses
the private data unchecked. Verifying the pointer avoids that.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vc_screen: move load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF
After a call to console_unlock() in vcs_read() the vc_data struct can be
freed by vc_deallocate(). Because of that, the struct vc_data pointer
load must be done at the top of while loop in vcs_read() to avoid a UAF
when vcs_size() is called.
Syzkaller reported a UAF in vcs_size().
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881137479a8 by task 4a005ed81e27e65/1537
CPU: 0 PID: 1537 Comm: 4a005ed81e27e65 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__asan_report_load4_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350)
vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)
vcs_read (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:415)
vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468 fs/read_write.c:450)
...
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1191:
...
kmalloc_trace (mm/slab_common.c:1069)
vc_allocate (./include/linux/slab.h:580 ./include/linux/slab.h:720
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1128 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1108)
con_install (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3383)
tty_init_dev (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1301 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413
drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1390)
tty_open (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2126)
chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:415)
do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:883)
vfs_open (fs/open.c:1014)
...
Freed by task 1548:
...
kfree (mm/slab_common.c:1021)
vc_port_destruct (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1094)
tty_port_destructor (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:296)
tty_port_put (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:312)
vt_disallocate_all (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:662 (discriminator 2))
vt_ioctl (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:903)
tty_ioctl (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2776)
...
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113747800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 424 bytes inside of
1024-byte region [ffff888113747800, ffff888113747c00)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000b3fe6c7c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x0 pfn:0x113740
head:00000000b3fe6c7c order:3 compound_mapcount:0 subpages_mapcount:0
compound_pincount:0
anon flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffff888100042dc0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888113747880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888113747900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff888113747980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888113747a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888113747a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix UAF during login when accessing the shost ipaddress
If during iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create() iscsi_tcp_r2tpool_alloc() fails,
userspace could be accessing the host's ipaddress attr. If we then free the
session via iscsi_session_teardown() while userspace is still accessing the
session we will hit a use after free bug.
Set the tcp_sw_host->session after we have completed session creation and
can no longer fail.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix UAF during logout when accessing the shost ipaddress
Bug report and analysis from Ding Hui.
During iSCSI session logout, if another task accesses the shost ipaddress
attr, we can get a KASAN UAF report like this:
[ 276.942144] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0
[ 276.942535] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881053b45b8 by task cat/4088
[ 276.943511] CPU: 2 PID: 4088 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 6.1.0-rc8+ #3
[ 276.943997] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[ 276.944470] Call Trace:
[ 276.944943] <TASK>
[ 276.945397] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
[ 276.945887] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x1e7
[ 276.946421] print_report+0x36/0x4f
[ 276.947358] kasan_report+0xad/0x130
[ 276.948234] kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1c0
[ 276.948674] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0
[ 276.949989] iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param+0xad/0x2e0 [iscsi_tcp]
[ 276.951765] show_host_param_ISCSI_HOST_PARAM_IPADDRESS+0xe9/0x130 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.952185] dev_attr_show+0x3f/0x80
[ 276.953005] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1fb/0x3e0
[ 276.953401] seq_read_iter+0x402/0x1020
[ 276.954260] vfs_read+0x532/0x7b0
[ 276.955113] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0
[ 276.955952] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[ 276.956347] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 276.956769] RIP: 0033:0x7f5d3a679222
[ 276.957161] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 32 c0 0b 00 e8 a5 fe 01 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24
[ 276.958009] RSP: 002b:00007ffc864d16a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
[ 276.958431] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f5d3a679222
[ 276.958857] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f5d3a4fe000 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 276.959281] RBP: 00007f5d3a4fe000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[ 276.959682] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000020000
[ 276.960126] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000557a26dada58
[ 276.960536] </TASK>
[ 276.961357] Allocated by task 2209:
[ 276.961756] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 276.962170] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[ 276.962557] __kasan_kmalloc+0x7e/0x90
[ 276.962923] __kmalloc+0x5b/0x140
[ 276.963308] iscsi_alloc_session+0x28/0x840 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.963712] iscsi_session_setup+0xda/0xba0 [libiscsi]
[ 276.964078] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create+0x1fd/0x330 [iscsi_tcp]
[ 276.964431] iscsi_if_create_session.isra.0+0x50/0x260 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.964793] iscsi_if_recv_msg+0xc5a/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.965153] iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.965546] netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0
[ 276.965905] netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30
[ 276.966236] sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120
[ 276.966576] ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860
[ 276.966923] ___sys_sendmsg+0xe0/0x170
[ 276.967300] __sys_sendmsg+0xc8/0x170
[ 276.967666] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[ 276.968028] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 276.968773] Freed by task 2209:
[ 276.969111] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[ 276.969449] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[ 276.969789] kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50
[ 276.970146] __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x190
[ 276.970470] __kmem_cache_free+0x133/0x270
[ 276.970816] device_release+0x98/0x210
[ 276.971145] kobject_cleanup+0x101/0x360
[ 276.971462] iscsi_session_teardown+0x3fb/0x530 [libiscsi]
[ 276.971775] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy+0xd8/0x130 [iscsi_tcp]
[ 276.972143] iscsi_if_recv_msg+0x1bf1/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.972485] iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 276.972808] netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0
[ 276.973201] netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30
[ 276.973544] sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120
[ 276.973864] ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860
[ 276.974248] ___sys_
---truncated---
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent
When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced
without checking it for NULL.
This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in
case memremap doesn't succeed.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]