Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
8021q: delete cleared egress QoS mappings
vlan_dev_set_egress_priority() currently keeps cleared egress
priority mappings in the hash as tombstones. Repeated set/clear cycles
with distinct skb priorities therefore accumulate mapping nodes until
device teardown and leak memory.
Delete mappings when vlan_prio is cleared instead of keeping tombstones.
Now that the egress mapping lists are RCU protected, the node can be
unlinked safely and freed after a grace period.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet-tcp: fix race between ICReq handling and queue teardown
nvmet_tcp_handle_icreq() updates queue->state after sending an
Initialization Connection Response (ICResp), but it does so without
serializing against target-side queue teardown.
If an NVMe/TCP host sends an Initialization Connection Request
(ICReq) and immediately closes the connection, target-side teardown
may start in softirq context before io_work drains the already
buffered ICReq. In that case, nvmet_tcp_schedule_release_queue()
sets queue->state to NVMET_TCP_Q_DISCONNECTING and drops the queue
reference under state_lock.
If io_work later processes that ICReq, nvmet_tcp_handle_icreq() can
still overwrite the state back to NVMET_TCP_Q_LIVE. That defeats the
DISCONNECTING-state guard in nvmet_tcp_schedule_release_queue() and
allows a later socket state change to re-enter teardown and issue a
second kref_put() on an already released queue.
The ICResp send failure path has the same problem. If teardown has
already moved the queue to DISCONNECTING, a send error can still
overwrite the state with NVMET_TCP_Q_FAILED, again reopening the
window for a second teardown path to drop the queue reference.
Fix this by serializing both post-send state transitions with
state_lock and bailing out if teardown has already started.
Use -ESHUTDOWN as an internal sentinel for that bail-out path rather
than propagating it as a transport error like -ECONNRESET. Keep
nvmet_tcp_socket_error() setting rcv_state to NVMET_TCP_RECV_ERR before
honoring that sentinel so receive-side parsing stays quiesced until the
existing release path completes.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7921: fix a potential clc buffer length underflow
The buf_len is used to limit the iterations for retrieving the country
power setting and may underflow under certain conditions due to changes
in the power table in CLC.
This underflow leads to an almost infinite loop or an invalid power
setting resulting in driver initialization failure.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: fix potential data-race
This mptcp_pm_add_timer() helper is executed as a timer callback in
softirq context. To avoid any data races, the socket lock needs to be
held with bh_lock_sock().
If the socket is in use, retry again soon after, similar to what is done
with the keepalive timer.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix OOB read and infinite loop in hci_le_create_big_complete_evt
hci_le_create_big_complete_evt() iterates over BT_BOUND connections for
a BIG handle using a while loop, accessing ev->bis_handle[i++] on each
iteration. However, there is no check that i stays within ev->num_bis
before the array access.
When a controller sends a LE_Create_BIG_Complete event with fewer
bis_handle entries than there are BT_BOUND connections for that BIG,
or with num_bis=0, the loop reads beyond the valid bis_handle[] flex
array into adjacent heap memory. Since the out-of-bounds values
typically exceed HCI_CONN_HANDLE_MAX (0x0EFF), hci_conn_set_handle()
rejects them and the connection remains in BT_BOUND state. The same
connection is then found again by hci_conn_hash_lookup_big_state(),
creating an infinite loop with hci_dev_lock held.
Fix this by terminating the BIG if in case not all BIS could be setup
properly.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer
Commit 62e7dd0a39c2d ("smb: common: change the data type of num_aces
to le16") split struct smb_acl's __le32 num_aces field into __le16
num_aces and __le16 reserved. The reserved field corresponds to Sbz2
in the MS-DTYP ACL wire format, which must be zero [1].
When building an ACL descriptor in build_sec_desc(), we are using a
kmalloc()'ed descriptor buffer and writing the fields explicitly using
le16() writes now. This never writes to the 2 byte reserved field,
leaving it as uninitialized heap data.
When the reserved field happens to contain non-zero slab garbage,
Samba rejects the security descriptor with "ndr_pull_security_descriptor
failed: Range Error", causing chmod to fail with EINVAL.
Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to ensure the entire buffer is
zero-initialized.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/20233ed8-a6c6-4097-aafa-dd545ed24428
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btmtk: validate WMT event SKB length before struct access
btmtk_usb_hci_wmt_sync() casts the WMT event response SKB data to
struct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt (7 bytes) and struct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt_funcc
(9 bytes) without first checking that the SKB contains enough data.
A short firmware response causes out-of-bounds reads from SKB tailroom.
Use skb_pull_data() to validate and advance past the base WMT event
header. For the FUNC_CTRL case, pull the additional status field bytes
before accessing them.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/xive: fix kmemleak caused by incorrect chip_data lookup
The kmemleak reports the following memory leak:
Unreferenced object 0xc0000002a7fbc640 (size 64):
comm "kworker/8:1", pid 540, jiffies 4294937872
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 04 00 04 00 00 ................
00 00 a7 81 00 00 0a c0 00 00 08 04 00 04 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 177d48f6):
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x520/0x730
xive_irq_alloc_data.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
xive_irq_domain_alloc+0xd0/0x1b0
irq_domain_alloc_irqs_parent+0x44/0x6c
pseries_irq_domain_alloc+0x1cc/0x354
irq_domain_alloc_irqs_parent+0x44/0x6c
msi_domain_alloc+0xb0/0x220
irq_domain_alloc_irqs_locked+0x138/0x4d0
__irq_domain_alloc_irqs+0x8c/0xfc
__msi_domain_alloc_irqs+0x214/0x4d8
msi_domain_alloc_irqs_all_locked+0x70/0xf8
pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs+0x60/0x78
__pci_enable_msix_range+0x54c/0x98c
pci_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity+0x16c/0x1d4
nvme_pci_enable+0xac/0x9c0 [nvme]
nvme_probe+0x340/0x764 [nvme]
This occurs when allocating MSI-X vectors for an NVMe device. During
allocation the XIVE code creates a struct xive_irq_data and stores it
in irq_data->chip_data.
When the MSI-X irqdomain is later freed, xive_irq_free_data() is
responsible for retrieving this structure and freeing it. However,
after commit cc0cc23babc9 ("powerpc/xive: Untangle xive from child
interrupt controller drivers"), xive_irq_free_data() retrieves the
chip_data using irq_get_chip_data(), which looks up the data through
the child domain.
This is incorrect because the XIVE-specific irq data is associated with
the XIVE (parent) domain. As a result the lookup fails and the allocated
struct xive_irq_data is never freed, leading to the kmemleak report
shown above.
Fix this by retrieving the irq_data from the correct domain using
irq_domain_get_irq_data() and then accessing the chip_data via
irq_data_get_irq_chip_data().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: libwx: fix VF illegal register access
Register WX_CFG_PORT_ST is a PF restricted register. When a VF is
initialized, attempting to read this register triggers an illegal
register access, which lead to a system hang.
When the device is VF, the bus function ID can be obtained directly from
the PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: qcom: q6apm-lpass-dai: Fix multiple graph opens
As prepare can be called mulitple times, this can result in multiple
graph opens for playback path.
This will result in a memory leaks, fix this by adding a check before
opening.