Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/drv: Fix potential memory leak in drm_dev_init()
drm_dev_init() will add drm_dev_init_release() as a callback. When
drmm_add_action() failed, the release function won't be added. As the
result, the ref cnt added by device_get() in drm_dev_init() won't be put
by drm_dev_init_release(), which leads to the memleak. Use
drmm_add_action_or_reset() instead of drmm_add_action() to prevent
memleak.
unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc0c800 (size 2048):
comm "modprobe", pid 8322, jiffies 4305809845 (age 15.292s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e8 cc c0 0b 81 88 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ................
20 24 3c 0c 81 88 ff ff 18 c8 c0 0b 81 88 ff ff $<.............
backtrace:
[<000000007251f72d>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x1c0
[<0000000045f21f26>] platform_device_alloc+0x2d/0xe0
[<000000004452a479>] platform_device_register_full+0x24/0x1c0
[<0000000089f4ea61>] 0xffffffffa0736051
[<00000000235b2441>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x380
[<0000000001a4a177>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x230
[<000000002bf8a8e2>] load_module+0x227d/0x2420
[<00000000637d6d0a>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140
[<00000000c99fc324>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<000000004d85aa77>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: zoned: initialize device's zone info for seeding
When performing seeding on a zoned filesystem it is necessary to
initialize each zoned device's btrfs_zoned_device_info structure,
otherwise mounting the filesystem will cause a NULL pointer dereference.
This was uncovered by fstests' testcase btrfs/163.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map
Here is the BUG report by KASAN about null pointer dereference:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in strcmp+0x2e/0x50
Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000000 by task python3/2640
Call Trace:
strcmp
__of_find_property
of_find_property
pinctrl_dt_to_map
kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate.
So directly return ENOMEM, if kasprintf() return NULL pointer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: zoned: clone zoned device info when cloning a device
When cloning a btrfs_device, we're not cloning the associated
btrfs_zoned_device_info structure of the device in case of a zoned
filesystem.
Later on this leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing the
device's zone_info for instance when setting a zone as active.
This was uncovered by fstests' testcase btrfs/161.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of ns_writer on remount
If a nilfs2 filesystem is downgraded to read-only due to metadata
corruption on disk and is remounted read/write, or if emergency read-only
remount is performed, detaching a log writer and synchronizing the
filesystem can be done at the same time.
In these cases, use-after-free of the log writer (hereinafter
nilfs->ns_writer) can happen as shown in the scenario below:
Task1 Task2
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
nilfs_construct_segment
nilfs_segctor_sync
init_wait
init_waitqueue_entry
add_wait_queue
schedule
nilfs_remount (R/W remount case)
nilfs_attach_log_writer
nilfs_detach_log_writer
nilfs_segctor_destroy
kfree
finish_wait
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave
do_raw_spin_lock
debug_spin_lock_before <-- use-after-free
While Task1 is sleeping, nilfs->ns_writer is freed by Task2. After Task1
waked up, Task1 accesses nilfs->ns_writer which is already freed. This
scenario diagram is based on the Shigeru Yoshida's post [1].
This patch fixes the issue by not detaching nilfs->ns_writer on remount so
that this UAF race doesn't happen. Along with this change, this patch
also inserts a few necessary read-only checks with superblock instance
where only the ns_writer pointer was used to check if the filesystem is
read-only.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda: fix potential memleak in 'add_widget_node'
As 'kobject_add' may allocated memory for 'kobject->name' when return error.
And in this function, if call 'kobject_add' failed didn't free kobject.
So call 'kobject_put' to recycling resources.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink()
MHI driver registers network device without setting the
needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when
unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak.
This patch calls free_netdev() to fix it since netdev_priv
is used after unregister.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mISDN: fix misuse of put_device() in mISDN_register_device()
We should not release reference by put_device() before calling device_initialize().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeon_ep: fix potential memory leak in octep_device_setup()
When occur unsupported_dev and mbox init errors, it did not free oct->conf
and iounmap() oct->mmio[i].hw_addr. That would trigger memory leak problem.
Add kfree() for oct->conf and iounmap() for oct->mmio[i].hw_addr under
unsupported_dev and mbox init errors to fix the problem.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mctp i2c: don't count unused / invalid keys for flow release
We're currently hitting the WARN_ON in mctp_i2c_flow_release:
if (midev->release_count > midev->i2c_lock_count) {
WARN_ONCE(1, "release count overflow");
This may be hit if we expire a flow before sending the first packet it
contains - as we will not be pairing the increment of release_count
(performed on flow release) with the i2c lock operation (only
performed on actual TX).
To fix this, only release a flow if we've encountered it previously (ie,
dev_flow_state does not indicate NEW), as we will mark the flow as
ACTIVE at the same time as accounting for the i2c lock operation. We
also need to add an INVALID flow state, to indicate when we've done the
release.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01