Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In August 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinmux: fix race causing mux_owner NULL with active mux_usecount
commit 5a3e85c3c397 ("pinmux: Use sequential access to access
desc->pinmux data") tried to address the issue when two client of the
same gpio calls pinctrl_select_state() for the same functionality, was
resulting in NULL pointer issue while accessing desc->mux_owner.
However, issue was not completely fixed due to the way it was handled
and it can still result in the same NULL pointer.
The issue occurs due to the following interleaving:
cpu0 (process A) cpu1 (process B)
pin_request() { pin_free() {
mutex_lock()
desc->mux_usecount--; //becomes 0
..
mutex_unlock()
mutex_lock(desc->mux)
desc->mux_usecount++; // becomes 1
desc->mux_owner = owner;
mutex_unlock(desc->mux)
mutex_lock(desc->mux)
desc->mux_owner = NULL;
mutex_unlock(desc->mux)
This sequence leads to a state where the pin appears to be in use
(`mux_usecount == 1`) but has no owner (`mux_owner == NULL`), which can
cause NULL pointer on next pin_request on the same pin.
Ensure that updates to mux_usecount and mux_owner are performed
atomically under the same lock. Only clear mux_owner when mux_usecount
reaches zero and no new owner has been assigned.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical
The pll1_d8 clock is enabled by the boot loader, and is ultimately a
parent for numerous clocks, including those used by APB and AXI buses.
Guodong Xu discovered that this clock got disabled while responding to
getting -EPROBE_DEFER when requesting a reset controller.
The needed clock (CLK_DMA, along with its parents) had already been
enabled. To respond to the probe deferral return, the CLK_DMA clock
was disabled, and this led to parent clocks also reducing their enable
count. When the enable count for pll1_d8 was decremented it became 0,
which caused it to be disabled. This led to a system hang.
Marking that clock critical resolves this by preventing it from being
disabled.
Define a new macro CCU_FACTOR_GATE_DEFINE() to allow clock flags to
be supplied for a CCU_FACTOR_GATE clock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: cpcap-charger: Fix null check for power_supply_get_by_name
In the cpcap_usb_detect() function, the power_supply_get_by_name()
function may return `NULL` instead of an error pointer.
To prevent potential null pointer dereferences, Added a null check.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: davinci: Add NULL check in davinci_lpsc_clk_register()
devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently,
davinci_lpsc_clk_register() does not check for this case, which results
in a NULL pointer dereference.
Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue and ensuring
no resources are left allocated.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints
Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following
warning:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0
Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[...]
do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0
? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10
? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200
trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0
This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of
__string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and
reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next
automaton's data in this case).
The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null
terminator, but it should still be fixed.
Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid
reading out of bound memory.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
inet6_rt_notify() can be called under RCU protection only.
This means the route could be changed concurrently
and rt6_fill_node() could return -EMSGSIZE.
Re-size the skb when this happens and retry, removing
one WARN_ON() that syzbot was able to trigger:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6291 at net/ipv6/route.c:6342 inet6_rt_notify+0x475/0x4b0 net/ipv6/route.c:6342
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6291 Comm: syz.0.77 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:inet6_rt_notify+0x475/0x4b0 net/ipv6/route.c:6342
Code: fc ff ff e8 6d 52 ea f7 e9 47 fc ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 4c 89 04 24 e8 5a 52 ea f7 4c 8b 04 24 e9 94 fd ff ff e8 9c fe 84 f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 bd fd ff ff e8 6e 52 ea f7 e9 bb fb ff ff 48 89 df e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035cf1d8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc900035cf540 RCX: ffffffff8a36e790
RDX: ffff88802f7e8000 RSI: ffffffff8a36e9d4 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffff88803c230f00 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 00000000ffffffa6
R10: 00000000ffffffa6 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000ffffffa6
R13: 0000000000000900 R14: ffff888032ea4100 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007fac7b89a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d6a20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fac7b899f98 CR3: 0000000034b3f000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip6_route_mpath_notify+0xde/0x280 net/ipv6/route.c:5356
ip6_route_multipath_add+0x1181/0x1bd0 net/ipv6/route.c:5536
inet6_rtm_newroute+0xe4/0x1a0 net/ipv6/route.c:5647
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6944
netlink_rcv_skb+0x155/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x58d/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
netlink_sendmsg+0x8d1/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa95/0xc70 net/socket.c:2566
___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2620
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851
[..]
string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721
vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874
[..]
nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41
xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523
nfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error
printk relied on its presence.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/pds: Fix missing detach_ioas op
When CONFIG_IOMMUFD is enabled and a device is bound to the pds_vfio_pci
driver, the following WARN_ON() trace is seen and probe fails:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5040 at drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c:317 __vfio_register_dev+0x130/0x140 [vfio]
<...>
pds_vfio_pci 0000:08:00.1: probe with driver pds_vfio_pci failed with error -22
This is because the driver's vfio_device_ops.detach_ioas isn't set.
Fix this by using the generic vfio_iommufd_physical_detach_ioas
function.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode
w/ "mode=lfs" mount option, generic/299 will cause system panic as below:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2835!
Call Trace:
<TASK>
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x6f4/0xc50
f2fs_map_blocks+0x970/0x1550
f2fs_iomap_begin+0xb2/0x1e0
iomap_iter+0x1d6/0x430
__iomap_dio_rw+0x208/0x9a0
f2fs_file_write_iter+0x6b3/0xfa0
aio_write+0x15d/0x2e0
io_submit_one+0x55e/0xab0
__x64_sys_io_submit+0xa5/0x230
do_syscall_64+0x84/0x2f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x70f/0x720
The root cause of we run out-of-space is: in f2fs_map_blocks(), f2fs may
trigger foreground gc only if it allocates any physical block, it will be
a little bit later when there is multiple threads writing data w/
aio/dio/bufio method in parallel, since we always use OPU in lfs mode, so
f2fs_map_blocks() does block allocations aggressively.
In order to fix this issue, let's give a chance to trigger foreground
gc in prior to block allocation in f2fs_map_blocks().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic
The decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after
I/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read,
and the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet
due to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info)
is evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic.
The UAF case as below:
Thread A Thread B
- f2fs_decompress_end_io
- f2fs_put_dic
- queue_work
add free_dic work to post_read_wq
- do_unlink
- iput
- evict
- call_rcu
This file is deleted after read.
Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq
- rcu_do_batch
- f2fs_free_inode
- kmem_cache_free
inode is freed by rcu
- process_scheduled_works
- f2fs_late_free_dic
- f2fs_free_dic
- f2fs_release_decomp_mem
read (dic->inode)->i_compress_algorithm
This patch store compress_algorithm and sbi in dic to avoid inode UAF.
In addition, the previous solution is deprecated in [1] may cause system hang.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c36ab955-c8db-4a8b-a9d0-f07b5f426c3f@kernel.org
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-08-22