Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libbpf: Fix accessing BTF.ext core_relo header
Update btf_ext_parse_info() to ensure the core_relo header is present
before reading its fields. This avoids a potential buffer read overflow
reported by the OSS Fuzz project.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()
When the kernel contains a large number of functions that can be traced,
the loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() may take a lot of time to execute.
This may trigger the softlockup watchdog.
Add cond_resched() within the loop to allow the kernel to remain
responsive even when processing a large number of functions.
This matches the cond_resched() that is used in other locations of the
code that iterates over all functions that can be traced.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: codecs: wcd937x: fix a potential memory leak in wcd937x_soc_codec_probe()
When snd_soc_dapm_new_controls() or snd_soc_dapm_add_routes() fails,
wcd937x_soc_codec_probe() returns without releasing 'wcd937x->clsh_info',
which is allocated by wcd_clsh_ctrl_alloc. Add wcd_clsh_ctrl_free()
to prevent potential memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: simple-card-utils: Fix pointer check in graph_util_parse_link_direction
Actually check if the passed pointers are valid, before writing to them.
This also fixes a USBAN warning:
UBSAN: invalid-load in ../sound/soc/fsl/imx-card.c:687:25
load of value 255 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
This is because playback_only is uninitialized and is not written to, as
the playback-only property is absent.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix SER panic with 4GB+ RAM
If the mtk_poll_rx() function detects the MTK_RESETTING flag, it will
jump to release_desc and refill the high word of the SDP on the 4GB RFB.
Subsequently, mtk_rx_clean will process an incorrect SDP, leading to a
panic.
Add patch from MediaTek's SDK to resolve this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/intel: KVM: Mask PEBS_ENABLE loaded for guest with vCPU's value.
When generating the MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE value that will be loaded on
VM-Entry to a KVM guest, mask the value with the vCPU's desired PEBS_ENABLE
value. Consulting only the host kernel's host vs. guest masks results in
running the guest with PEBS enabled even when the guest doesn't want to use
PEBS. Because KVM uses perf events to proxy the guest virtual PMU, simply
looking at exclude_host can't differentiate between events created by host
userspace, and events created by KVM on behalf of the guest.
Running the guest with PEBS unexpectedly enabled typically manifests as
crashes due to a near-infinite stream of #PFs. E.g. if the guest hasn't
written MSR_IA32_DS_AREA, the CPU will hit page faults on address '0' when
trying to record PEBS events.
The issue is most easily reproduced by running `perf kvm top` from before
commit 7b100989b4f6 ("perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default") (after
which, `perf kvm top` effectively stopped using PEBS). The userspace side
of perf creates a guest-only PEBS event, which intel_guest_get_msrs()
misconstrues a guest-*owned* PEBS event.
Arguably, this is a userspace bug, as enabling PEBS on guest-only events
simply cannot work, and userspace can kill VMs in many other ways (there
is no danger to the host). However, even if this is considered to be bad
userspace behavior, there's zero downside to perf/KVM restricting PEBS to
guest-owned events.
Note, commit 854250329c02 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily
in two rare situations") fixed the case where host userspace is profiling
KVM *and* userspace, but missed the case where userspace is profiling only
KVM.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
objtool, media: dib8000: Prevent divide-by-zero in dib8000_set_dds()
If dib8000_set_dds()'s call to dib8000_read32() returns zero, the result
is a divide-by-zero. Prevent that from happening.
Fixes the following warning with an UBSAN kernel:
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib8000.o: warning: objtool: dib8000_tune() falls through to next function dib8096p_cfg_DibRx()
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix use-after-free in kerberos authentication
Setting sess->user = NULL was introduced to fix the dangling pointer
created by ksmbd_free_user. However, it is possible another thread could
be operating on the session and make use of sess->user after it has been
passed to ksmbd_free_user but before sess->user is set to NULL.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_session_rpc_open
A UAF issue can occur due to a race condition between
ksmbd_session_rpc_open() and __session_rpc_close().
Add rpc_lock to the session to protect it.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: Fix potential buffer overflow in parse_ivrs_acpihid
There is a string parsing logic error which can lead to an overflow of hid
or uid buffers. Comparing ACPIID_LEN against a total string length doesn't
take into account the lengths of individual hid and uid buffers so the
check is insufficient in some cases. For example if the length of hid
string is 4 and the length of the uid string is 260, the length of str
will be equal to ACPIID_LEN + 1 but uid string will overflow uid buffer
which size is 256.
The same applies to the hid string with length 13 and uid string with
length 250.
Check the length of hid and uid strings separately to prevent
buffer overflow.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-20