Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In March 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new
Syzkaller reports a memory leak of new_flow in ovs_flow_cmd_new() as it is
not freed when an allocation of a key fails.
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888116668000 (size 632):
comm "syz-executor231", pid 1090, jiffies 4294844701 (age 18.871s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000defa3494>] kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:654 [inline]
[<00000000defa3494>] ovs_flow_alloc+0x19/0x180 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c:77
[<00000000c67d8873>] ovs_flow_cmd_new+0x1de/0xd40 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:957
[<0000000010a539a8>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22d/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
[<00000000dff3302d>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
[<00000000dff3302d>] genl_rcv_msg+0x328/0x590 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
[<000000000286dd87>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2515
[<0000000061fed410>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
[<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline]
[<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast+0x545/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339
[<000000004a5ee816>] netlink_sendmsg+0x8e7/0xde0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1934
[<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
[<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg+0x152/0x190 net/socket.c:671
[<00000000698574ba>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x70a/0x870 net/socket.c:2356
[<00000000d28d9e11>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2410
[<0000000083ba9120>] __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2439
[<00000000c00628f8>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
[<000000004abfdcf4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
To fix this the patch rearranges the goto labels to reflect the order of
object allocations and adds appropriate goto statements on the error
paths.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position
The kernel would panic when probed for an illegal position. eg:
(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C=n)
echo 'p:hello kernel_clone+0x16 a0=%a0' >> kprobe_events
echo 1 > events/kprobes/hello/enable
cat trace
Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack
is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8
CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: sh Not tainted
6.2.0-rc1-00027-g2d398fe49a4d #490
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80007268>] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x48
[<ffffffff80c5e83c>] show_stack+0x50/0x68
[<ffffffff80c6da28>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x84
[<ffffffff80c6da6c>] dump_stack+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff80c5ecf4>] panic+0x160/0x374
[<ffffffff80c6db94>] generic_handle_arch_irq+0x0/0xa8
[<ffffffff802deeb0>] sys_newstat+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff800158c0>] sys_clone+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff800039e8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x4
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector:
Kernel stack is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8 ]---
That is because the kprobe's ebreak instruction broke the kernel's
original code. The user should guarantee the correction of the probe
position, but it couldn't make the kernel panic.
This patch adds arch_check_kprobe in arch_prepare_kprobe to prevent an
illegal position (Such as the middle of an instruction).
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/khugepaged: fix ->anon_vma race
If an ->anon_vma is attached to the VMA, collapse_and_free_pmd() requires
it to be locked.
Page table traversal is allowed under any one of the mmap lock, the
anon_vma lock (if the VMA is associated with an anon_vma), and the
mapping lock (if the VMA is associated with a mapping); and so to be
able to remove page tables, we must hold all three of them.
retract_page_tables() bails out if an ->anon_vma is attached, but does
this check before holding the mmap lock (as the comment above the check
explains).
If we racily merged an existing ->anon_vma (shared with a child
process) from a neighboring VMA, subsequent rmap traversals on pages
belonging to the child will be able to see the page tables that we are
concurrently removing while assuming that nothing else can access them.
Repeat the ->anon_vma check once we hold the mmap lock to ensure that
there really is no concurrent page table access.
Hitting this bug causes a lockdep warning in collapse_and_free_pmd(),
in the line "lockdep_assert_held_write(&vma->anon_vma->root->rwsem)".
It can also lead to use-after-free access.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kernel/irq/irqdomain.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HV: hv_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: typec: ucsi: Don't attempt to resume the ports before they exist
This will fix null pointer dereference that was caused by
the driver attempting to resume ports that were not yet
registered.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()
As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"),
hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg
could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could
occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign
writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to
fix it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915: Fix potential bit_17 double-free
A userspace with multiple threads racing I915_GEM_SET_TILING to set the
tiling to I915_TILING_NONE could trigger a double free of the bit_17
bitmask. (Or conversely leak memory on the transition to tiled.) Move
allocation/free'ing of the bitmask within the section protected by the
obj lock.
[tursulin: Correct fixes tag and added cc stable.]
(cherry picked from commit 10e0cbaaf1104f449d695c80bcacf930dcd3c42e)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915: Avoid potential vm use-after-free
Adding the vm to the vm_xa table makes it visible to userspace, which
could try to race with us to close the vm. So we need to take our extra
reference before putting it in the table.
(cherry picked from commit 99343c46d4e2b34c285d3d5f68ff04274c2f9fb4)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages()
The softlockup still occurs in get_swap_pages() under memory pressure. 64
CPU cores, 64GB memory, and 28 zram devices, the disksize of each zram
device is 50MB with same priority as si. Use the stress-ng tool to
increase memory pressure, causing the system to oom frequently.
The plist_for_each_entry_safe() loops in get_swap_pages() could reach tens
of thousands of times to find available space (extreme case:
cond_resched() is not called in scan_swap_map_slots()). Let's add
cond_resched() into get_swap_pages() when failed to find available space
to avoid softlockup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27