Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In August 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64/entry: Mask DAIF in cpu_switch_to(), call_on_irq_stack()
`cpu_switch_to()` and `call_on_irq_stack()` manipulate SP to change
to different stacks along with the Shadow Call Stack if it is enabled.
Those two stack changes cannot be done atomically and both functions
can be interrupted by SErrors or Debug Exceptions which, though unlikely,
is very much broken : if interrupted, we can end up with mismatched stacks
and Shadow Call Stack leading to clobbered stacks.
In `cpu_switch_to()`, it can happen when SP_EL0 points to the new task,
but x18 stills points to the old task's SCS. When the interrupt handler
tries to save the task's SCS pointer, it will save the old task
SCS pointer (x18) into the new task struct (pointed to by SP_EL0),
clobbering it.
In `call_on_irq_stack()`, it can happen when switching from the task stack
to the IRQ stack and when switching back. In both cases, we can be
interrupted when the SCS pointer points to the IRQ SCS, but SP points to
the task stack. The nested interrupt handler pushes its return addresses
on the IRQ SCS. It then detects that SP points to the task stack,
calls `call_on_irq_stack()` and clobbers the task SCS pointer with
the IRQ SCS pointer, which it will also use !
This leads to tasks returning to addresses on the wrong SCS,
or even on the IRQ SCS, triggering kernel panics via CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
or FPAC if enabled.
This is possible on a default config, but unlikely.
However, when enabling CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI, DAIF is unmasked and
instead the GIC is responsible for filtering what interrupts the CPU
should receive based on priority.
Given the goal of emulating NMIs, pseudo-NMIs can be received by the CPU
even in `cpu_switch_to()` and `call_on_irq_stack()`, possibly *very*
frequently depending on the system configuration and workload, leading
to unpredictable kernel panics.
Completely mask DAIF in `cpu_switch_to()` and restore it when returning.
Do the same in `call_on_irq_stack()`, but restore and mask around
the branch.
Mask DAIF even if CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK is not enabled for consistency
of behaviour between all configurations.
Introduce and use an assembly macro for saving and masking DAIF,
as the existing one saves but only masks IF.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: qup: jump out of the loop in case of timeout
Original logic only sets the return value but doesn't jump out of the
loop if the bus is kept active by a client. This is not expected. A
malicious or buggy i2c client can hang the kernel in this case and
should be avoided. This is observed during a long time test with a
PCA953x GPIO extender.
Fix it by changing the logic to not only sets the return value, but also
jumps out of the loop and return to the caller with -ETIMEDOUT.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "drm/gem-dma: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
This reverts commit e8afa1557f4f963c9a511bd2c6074a941c308685.
The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the
object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space
releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted
in a NULL-pointer deref.
Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on
GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer:
Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem
partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM
framebuffer associated.
Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf.
v3:
- cc stable
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
This reverts commit cce16fcd7446dcff7480cd9d2b6417075ed81065.
The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the
object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space
releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted
in a NULL-pointer deref.
Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on
GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer:
Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem
partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM
framebuffer associated.
Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf.
v3:
- cc stable
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: No more self recovery
When a node withdraws and it turns out that it is the only node that has
the filesystem mounted, gfs2 currently tries to replay the local journal
to bring the filesystem back into a consistent state. Not only is that
a very bad idea, it has also never worked because gfs2_recover_func()
will refuse to do anything during a withdraw.
However, before even getting to this point, gfs2_recover_func()
dereferences sdp->sd_jdesc->jd_inode. This was a use-after-free before
commit 04133b607a78 ("gfs2: Prevent double iput for journal on error")
and is a NULL pointer dereference since then.
Simply get rid of self recovery to fix that.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
[ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string
... and parse_longname() is not guaranteed that. That's the reason
why it uses kmemdup_nul() to build the argument for kstrtou64();
the problem is, kstrtou64() is not the only thing that need it.
Just get a NUL-terminated copy of the entire thing and be done
with that...
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix `dmi_system_id` array
Add missing empty member to `awcc_dmi_table`.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: mediatek: mt8365-dai-i2s: pass correct size to mt8365_dai_set_priv
Given mt8365_dai_set_priv allocate priv_size space to copy priv_data which
means we should pass mt8365_i2s_priv[i] or "struct mtk_afe_i2s_priv"
instead of afe_priv which has the size of "struct mt8365_afe_private".
Otherwise the KASAN complains about.
[ 59.389765] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in mt8365_dai_set_priv+0xc8/0x168 [snd_soc_mt8365_pcm]
...
[ 59.394789] Call trace:
[ 59.395167] dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
[ 59.395733] show_stack+0x20/0x38
[ 59.396238] dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x148
[ 59.396806] print_report+0x37c/0x5e0
[ 59.397358] kasan_report+0xac/0xf8
[ 59.397885] kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190
[ 59.398485] asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x98
[ 59.399022] mt8365_dai_set_priv+0xc8/0x168 [snd_soc_mt8365_pcm]
[ 59.399928] mt8365_dai_i2s_register+0x1e8/0x2b0 [snd_soc_mt8365_pcm]
[ 59.400893] mt8365_afe_pcm_dev_probe+0x4d0/0xdf0 [snd_soc_mt8365_pcm]
[ 59.401873] platform_probe+0xcc/0x228
[ 59.402442] really_probe+0x340/0x9e8
[ 59.402992] driver_probe_device+0x16c/0x3f8
[ 59.403638] driver_probe_device+0x64/0x1d8
[ 59.404256] driver_attach+0x1dc/0x4c8
[ 59.404840] bus_for_each_dev+0x100/0x190
[ 59.405442] driver_attach+0x44/0x68
[ 59.405980] bus_add_driver+0x23c/0x500
[ 59.406550] driver_register+0xf8/0x3d0
[ 59.407122] platform_driver_register+0x68/0x98
[ 59.407810] mt8365_afe_pcm_driver_init+0x2c/0xff8 [snd_soc_mt8365_pcm]
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes
To prevent inodes with invalid file types from tripping through the vfs
and causing malfunctions or assertion failures, add a missing sanity check
when reading an inode from a block device. If the file type is not valid,
treat it as a filesystem error.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg()
Add check for the return value of devm_kmemdup()
to prevent potential null pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22