Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In March 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close
In nci_close_device(), complete any pending data exchange before
closing. The data exchange callback (e.g.
rawsock_data_exchange_complete) holds a socket reference.
NIPA occasionally hits this leak:
unreferenced object 0xff1100000f435000 (size 2048):
comm "nci_dev", pid 3954, jiffies 4295441245
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
27 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 '..@............
backtrace (crc ec2b3c5):
__kmalloc_noprof+0x4db/0x730
sk_prot_alloc.isra.0+0xe4/0x1d0
sk_alloc+0x36/0x760
rawsock_create+0xd1/0x540
nfc_sock_create+0x11f/0x280
__sock_create+0x22d/0x630
__sys_socket+0x115/0x1d0
__x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x117/0xfc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udp: Unhash auto-bound connected sk from 4-tuple hash table when disconnected.
Let's say we bind() an UDP socket to the wildcard address with a
non-zero port, connect() it to an address, and disconnect it from
the address.
bind() sets SOCK_BINDPORT_LOCK on sk->sk_userlocks (but not
SOCK_BINDADDR_LOCK), and connect() calls udp_lib_hash4() to put
the socket into the 4-tuple hash table.
Then, __udp_disconnect() calls sk->sk_prot->rehash(sk).
It computes a new hash based on the wildcard address and moves
the socket to a new slot in the 4-tuple hash table, leaving a
garbage in the chain that no packet hits.
Let's remove such a socket from 4-tuple hash table when disconnected.
Note that udp_sk(sk)->udp_portaddr_hash needs to be udpated after
udp_hash4_dec(hslot2) in udp_unhash4().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix crash during turbo disable
When the system is booted with kernel command line argument "nosmt" or
"maxcpus" to limit the number of CPUs, disabling turbo via:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
results in a crash:
PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
...
RIP: 0010:store_no_turbo+0x100/0x1f0
...
This occurs because for_each_possible_cpu() returns CPUs even if they
are not online. For those CPUs, all_cpu_data[] will be NULL. Since
commit 973207ae3d7c ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange max frequency
updates handling code"), all_cpu_data[] is dereferenced even for CPUs
which are not online, causing the NULL pointer dereference.
To fix that, pass CPU number to intel_pstate_update_max_freq() and use
all_cpu_data[] for those CPUs for which there is a valid cpufreq policy.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: usb: f81604: handle short interrupt urb messages properly
If an interrupt urb is received that is not the correct length, properly
detect it and don't attempt to treat the data as valid.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi: Fix use-after-free and list corruption on sender error
The analysis from Breno:
When the SMI sender returns an error, smi_work() delivers an error
response but then jumps back to restart without cleaning up properly:
1. intf->curr_msg is not cleared, so no new message is pulled
2. newmsg still points to the message, causing sender() to be called
again with the same message
3. If sender() fails again, deliver_err_response() is called with
the same recv_msg that was already queued for delivery
This causes list_add corruption ("list_add double add") because the
recv_msg is added to the user_msgs list twice. Subsequently, the
corrupted list leads to use-after-free when the memory is freed and
reused, and eventually a NULL pointer dereference when accessing
recv_msg->done.
The buggy sequence:
sender() fails
-> deliver_err_response(recv_msg) // recv_msg queued for delivery
-> goto restart // curr_msg not cleared!
sender() fails again (same message!)
-> deliver_err_response(recv_msg) // tries to queue same recv_msg
-> LIST CORRUPTION
Fix this by freeing the message and setting it to NULL on a send error.
Also, always free the newmsg on a send error, otherwise it will leak.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (macsmc) Fix regressions in Apple Silicon SMC hwmon driver
The recently added macsmc-hwmon driver contained several critical
bugs in its sensor population logic and float conversion routines.
Specifically:
- The voltage sensor population loop used the wrong prefix ("volt-"
instead of "voltage-") and incorrectly assigned sensors to the
temperature sensor array (hwmon->temp.sensors) instead of the
voltage sensor array (hwmon->volt.sensors). This would lead to
out-of-bounds memory access or data corruption when both temperature
and voltage sensors were present.
- The float conversion in macsmc_hwmon_write_f32() had flawed exponent
logic for values >= 2^24 and lacked masking for the mantissa, which
could lead to incorrect values being written to the SMC.
Fix these issues to ensure correct sensor registration and reliable
manual fan control.
Confirm that the reported overflow in FIELD_PREP is fixed by declaring
macsmc_hwmon_write_f32() as __always_inline for a compile test.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: usb: etas_es58x: correctly anchor the urb in the read bulk callback
When submitting an urb, that is using the anchor pattern, it needs to be
anchored before submitting it otherwise it could be leaked if
usb_kill_anchored_urbs() is called. This logic is correctly done
elsewhere in the driver, except in the read bulk callback so do that
here also.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible oob access in mt7996_mac_write_txwi_80211()
Check frame length before accessing the mgmt fields in
mt7996_mac_write_txwi_80211 in order to avoid a possible oob access.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak
After commit b692bf9a7543 ("xsk: Get rid of xdp_buff_xsk::xskb_list_node"),
the list_node field is reused for both the xskb pool list and the buffer
free list, this causes a buffer leak as described below.
xp_free() checks if a buffer is already on the free list using
list_empty(&xskb->list_node). When list_del() is used to remove a node
from the xskb pool list, it doesn't reinitialize the node pointers.
This means list_empty() will return false even after the node has been
removed, causing xp_free() to incorrectly skip adding the buffer to the
free list.
Fix this by using list_del_init() instead of list_del() in all fragment
handling paths, this ensures the list node is reinitialized after removal,
allowing the list_empty() to work correctly.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed()
cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() casts and dereferences the input
payload without first verifying its size. When a raw mailbox command
is sent with an undersized payload (ie: 1 byte for CXL_MBOX_OP_CLEAR_LOG,
which expects a 16-byte UUID), uuid_equal() reads past the allocated buffer,
triggering a KASAN splat:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810130f5c0 by task syz.1.62/2258
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2258 Comm: syz.1.62 Not tainted 6.19.0-dirty #3 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xab/0xe0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xce/0x650 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xce/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:595
memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683
uuid_equal include/linux/uuid.h:73 [inline]
cxl_payload_from_user_allowed drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:345 [inline]
cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:368 [inline]
cxl_validate_cmd_from_user drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:522 [inline]
cxl_send_cmd+0x9c0/0xb50 drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:643
__cxl_memdev_ioctl drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:698 [inline]
cxl_memdev_ioctl+0x14f/0x190 drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:713
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xa8/0x330 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdaf331ba79
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fdaf1d77038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdaf3585fa0 RCX: 00007fdaf331ba79
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 00000000c030ce02 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fdaf33749df R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdaf3586038 R14: 00007fdaf3585fa0 R15: 00007ffced2af768
</TASK>
Add 'in_size' parameter to cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() and validate
the payload is large enough.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25