Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net, neigh: Fix null-ptr-deref in neigh_table_clear()
When IPv6 module gets initialized but hits an error in the middle,
kenel panic with:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000598-0x000000000000059f]
CPU: 1 PID: 361 Comm: insmod
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:__neigh_ifdown.isra.0+0x24b/0x370
RSP: 0018:ffff888012677908 EFLAGS: 00000202
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
neigh_table_clear+0x94/0x2d0
ndisc_cleanup+0x27/0x40 [ipv6]
inet6_init+0x21c/0x2cb [ipv6]
do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x4d0
do_init_module+0x1ae/0x670
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
When ipv6 initialization fails, it will try to cleanup and calls:
neigh_table_clear()
neigh_ifdown(tbl, NULL)
pneigh_queue_purge(&tbl->proxy_queue, dev_net(dev == NULL))
# dev_net(NULL) triggers null-ptr-deref.
Fix it by passing NULL to pneigh_queue_purge() in neigh_ifdown() if dev
is NULL, to make kernel not panic immediately.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Fix possible leaked pernet namespace in smc_init()
In smc_init(), register_pernet_subsys(&smc_net_stat_ops) is called
without any error handling.
If it fails, registering of &smc_net_ops won't be reverted.
And if smc_nl_init() fails, &smc_net_stat_ops itself won't be reverted.
This leaves wild ops in subsystem linkedlist and when another module
tries to call register_pernet_operations() it triggers page fault:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff81b964c
RIP: 0010:register_pernet_operations+0x1b9/0x5f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
register_pernet_subsys+0x29/0x40
ebtables_init+0x58/0x1000 [ebtables]
...
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success
Free the rwi structure in the event that the last rwi in the list
processed successfully. The logic in commit 4f408e1fa6e1 ("ibmvnic:
retry reset if there are no other resets") introduces an issue that
results in a 32 byte memory leak whenever the last rwi in the list
gets processed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for __mdiobus_register
Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing
significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:586:27
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5
dump_stack+0x15/0x1b
ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c
__mdiobus_register+0x49d/0x4e0
fixed_mdio_bus_init+0xd8/0x12d
do_one_initcall+0x76/0x430
kernel_init_freeable+0x3b3/0x422
kernel_init+0x24/0x1e0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write
Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:
====================================
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810d81ac00 (size 240):
[...]
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:
[<ffffffff838733d9>] __alloc_skb+0x1f9/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:418
[<ffffffff833f742f>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1257 [inline]
[<ffffffff833f742f>] bt_skb_alloc include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:469 [inline]
[<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_get_user drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:391 [inline]
[<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_write+0x5f/0x230 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:511
[<ffffffff815e398d>] call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2192 [inline]
[<ffffffff815e398d>] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
[<ffffffff815e398d>] vfs_write+0x42d/0x540 fs/read_write.c:578
[<ffffffff815e3cdd>] ksys_write+0x9d/0x160 fs/read_write.c:631
[<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
====================================
HCI core will uses hci_rx_work() to process frame, which is queued to
the hdev->rx_q tail in hci_recv_frame() by HCI driver.
Yet the problem is that, HCI core may not free the skb after handling
ACL data packets. To be more specific, when start fragment does not
contain the L2CAP length, HCI core just copies skb into conn->rx_skb and
finishes frame process in l2cap_recv_acldata(), without freeing the skb,
which triggers the above memory leak.
This patch solves it by releasing the relative skb, after processing
the above case in l2cap_recv_acldata().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()
In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to
complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed
the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...),
there will be a memleak in below logic:
|-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)
| /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */
|-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)
| /* ^^^ alloc memory */
|-- error = handler->get(handler, ...)
| /* error! */
|-- *xattr_value = value
| /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */
So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.
[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in test_gen_kprobe/kretprobe_cmd()
test_gen_kprobe_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak
when there is no failure. Move kfree(buf) from fail path to common path
to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in
test_gen_kretprobe_cmd().
unreferenced object 0xffff888143b14000 (size 2048):
comm "insmod", pid 52490, jiffies 4301890980 (age 40.553s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
70 3a 6b 70 72 6f 62 65 73 2f 67 65 6e 5f 6b 70 p:kprobes/gen_kp
72 6f 62 65 5f 74 65 73 74 20 64 6f 5f 73 79 73 robe_test do_sys
backtrace:
[<000000006d7b836b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<0000000009528b5b>] 0xffffffffa059006f
[<000000008408b580>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0
[<00000000c4980a7e>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320
[<00000000d775aad0>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390
[<00000000e9a74b80>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0
[<000000003726480d>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000003441e93b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix use-after-free for dynamic ftrace_ops
KASAN reported a use-after-free with ftrace ops [1]. It was found from
vmcore that perf had registered two ops with the same content
successively, both dynamic. After unregistering the second ops, a
use-after-free occurred.
In ftrace_shutdown(), when the second ops is unregistered, the
FTRACE_UPDATE_CALLS command is not set because there is another enabled
ops with the same content. Also, both ops are dynamic and the ftrace
callback function is ftrace_ops_list_func, so the
FTRACE_UPDATE_TRACE_FUNC command will not be set. Eventually the value
of 'command' will be 0 and ftrace_shutdown() will skip the rcu
synchronization.
However, ftrace may be activated. When the ops is released, another CPU
may be accessing the ops. Add the missing synchronization to fix this
problem.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
Read of size 8 at addr ffff56551965bbc8 by task syz-executor.2/14468
CPU: 1 PID: 14468 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.10.0 #7
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x40c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:132
show_stack+0x30/0x40 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:196
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x1b4/0x248 lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x28/0x48c mm/kasan/report.c:387
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:547 [inline]
kasan_report+0x118/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:564
check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:187 [inline]
__asan_load8+0x98/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:253
__ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
ftrace_graph_call+0x0/0x4
__might_sleep+0x8/0x100 include/linux/perf_event.h:1170
__might_fault mm/memory.c:5183 [inline]
__might_fault+0x58/0x70 mm/memory.c:5171
do_strncpy_from_user lib/strncpy_from_user.c:41 [inline]
strncpy_from_user+0x1f4/0x4b0 lib/strncpy_from_user.c:139
getname_flags+0xb0/0x31c fs/namei.c:149
getname+0x2c/0x40 fs/namei.c:209
[...]
Allocated by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:479 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x110/0x13c mm/kasan/common.c:449
kasan_kmalloc+0xc/0x14 mm/kasan/common.c:493
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x440/0x924 mm/slub.c:2950
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline]
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xb4/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11230
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
__arm64_sys_perf_event_open+0x6c/0x80 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]
Freed by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track+0x24/0x34 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
__kasan_slab_free.part.0+0x11c/0x1b0 mm/kasan/common.c:437
__kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:445 [inline]
kasan_slab_free+0x2c/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:446
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1569 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1608 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:3179 [inline]
kfree+0x12c/0xc10 mm/slub.c:4176
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xa0c/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11434
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/region: Fix cxl_region leak, cleanup targets at region delete
When a region is deleted any targets that have been previously assigned
to that region hold references to it. Trigger those references to
drop by detaching all targets at unregister_region() time.
Otherwise that region object will leak as userspace has lost the ability
to detach targets once region sysfs is torn down.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation
Some regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when
validating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result:
devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[..]
RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core]
[..]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200
vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0
ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
store_targetN+0x655/0x1740:
alloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676
(inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850
(inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290
(inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410
(inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01