Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In August 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
Multiple race conditions existed between the PCIe hotplug driver and the
EEH driver, leading to a variety of kernel oopses of the same general
nature:
<pcie device unplug>
<eeh driver trigger>
<hotplug removal trigger>
<pcie tree reconfiguration>
<eeh recovery next step>
<oops in EEH driver bus iteration loop>
A second class of oops is also seen when the underlying bus disappears
during device recovery.
Refactor the EEH module to be PCI rescan and remove safe. Also clean
up a few minor formatting / readability issues.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid panic in f2fs_evict_inode
As syzbot [1] reported as below:
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffe17473450
R13: 00007f28b1c10854 R14: 000000000000dae5 R15: 00007ffe17474520
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88812d962278 by task syz-executor/564
CPU: 1 PID: 564 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G W 6.1.129-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x158 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x71/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:316
print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:427
kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:531
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:351
__list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:134 [inline]
list_del_init include/linux/list.h:206 [inline]
f2fs_inode_synced+0xf7/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:1531
f2fs_update_inode+0x74/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/inode.c:585
f2fs_update_inode_page+0x137/0x170 fs/f2fs/inode.c:703
f2fs_write_inode+0x4ec/0x770 fs/f2fs/inode.c:731
write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1460 [inline]
__writeback_single_inode+0x4a0/0xab0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1677
writeback_single_inode+0x221/0x8b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1733
sync_inode_metadata+0xb6/0x110 fs/fs-writeback.c:2789
f2fs_sync_inode_meta+0x16d/0x2a0 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1159
block_operations fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1269 [inline]
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0xca3/0x2100 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1658
kill_f2fs_super+0x231/0x390 fs/f2fs/super.c:4668
deactivate_locked_super+0x98/0x100 fs/super.c:332
deactivate_super+0xaf/0xe0 fs/super.c:363
cleanup_mnt+0x45f/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1186
__cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1193
task_work_run+0x1c6/0x230 kernel/task_work.c:203
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
do_exit+0x9fb/0x2410 kernel/exit.c:871
do_group_exit+0x210/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1021
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1032 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1030 [inline]
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1030
x64_sys_call+0x7b4/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f28b1b8e169
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f28b1b8e13f.
RSP: 002b:00007ffe174710a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f28b1c10879 RCX: 00007f28b1b8e169
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00007ffe1746ee47 R09: 00007ffe17472360
R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe17472360
R13: 00007f28b1c10854 R14: 000000000000dae5 R15: 00007ffe17474520
</TASK>
Allocated by task 569:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:505
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x72/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:328
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2c0 mm/slab.h:737
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x104/0x220 mm/slub.c:3429
alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3245 [inline]
f2fs_alloc_inode+0x2d/0x340 fs/f2fs/super.c:1419
alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
iget_locked+0x186/0x880 fs/inode.c:1373
f2fs_iget+0x55/0x4c60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:483
f2fs_lookup+0x366/0xab0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:487
__lookup_slow+0x2a3/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:1690
lookup_slow+0x57/0x70 fs/namei.c:1707
walk_component+0x2e6/0x410 fs/namei
---truncated---
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_sync_inode_meta()
syzbot reported an UAF issue as below: [1] [2]
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashReport&x=16594c60580000
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888100567dc8 by task kworker/u4:0/8
CPU: 1 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G W 6.1.129-syzkaller-00017-g642656a36791 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x151/0x1b7 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
print_report+0x158/0x4e0 mm/kasan/report.c:427
kasan_report+0x13c/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:531
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:351
__list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:134 [inline]
list_del_init include/linux/list.h:206 [inline]
f2fs_inode_synced+0x100/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:1553
f2fs_update_inode+0x72/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/inode.c:588
f2fs_update_inode_page+0x135/0x170 fs/f2fs/inode.c:706
f2fs_write_inode+0x416/0x790 fs/f2fs/inode.c:734
write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1460 [inline]
__writeback_single_inode+0x4cf/0xb80 fs/fs-writeback.c:1677
writeback_sb_inodes+0xb32/0x1910 fs/fs-writeback.c:1903
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x118/0x3f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1974
wb_writeback+0x3da/0xa00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2081
wb_check_background_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2151 [inline]
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2239 [inline]
wb_workfn+0xbba/0x1030 fs/fs-writeback.c:2266
process_one_work+0x73d/0xcb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2299
worker_thread+0xa60/0x1260 kernel/workqueue.c:2446
kthread+0x26d/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:386
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
Allocated by task 298:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:505
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:333
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:202 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x53/0x2c0 mm/slab.h:768
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3421 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3431 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3438 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x102/0x270 mm/slub.c:3454
alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3255 [inline]
f2fs_alloc_inode+0x2d/0x350 fs/f2fs/super.c:1437
alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
iget_locked+0x18c/0x7e0 fs/inode.c:1373
f2fs_iget+0x55/0x4ca0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:486
f2fs_lookup+0x3c1/0xb50 fs/f2fs/namei.c:484
__lookup_slow+0x2b9/0x3e0 fs/namei.c:1689
lookup_slow+0x5a/0x80 fs/namei.c:1706
walk_component+0x2e7/0x410 fs/namei.c:1997
lookup_last fs/namei.c:2454 [inline]
path_lookupat+0x16d/0x450 fs/namei.c:2478
filename_lookup+0x251/0x600 fs/namei.c:2507
vfs_statx+0x107/0x4b0 fs/stat.c:229
vfs_fstatat fs/stat.c:267 [inline]
vfs_lstat include/linux/fs.h:3434 [inline]
__do_sys_newlstat fs/stat.c:423 [inline]
__se_sys_newlstat+0xda/0x7c0 fs/stat.c:417
__x64_sys_newlstat+0x5b/0x70 fs/stat.c:417
x64_sys_call+0x52/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:7
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
Freed by task 0:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
____kasan_slab_free+0x131/0x180 mm/kasan/common.c:241
__kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:249
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:178 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1745 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1771 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:3686 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail
When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the
event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase
the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as
perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another
reference count leak.
Return early on failure to prevent that.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts
Scott Mayhew discovered a security exploit in NFS over TLS in
tls_alert_recv() due to its assumption it can read data from
the msg iterator's kvec..
kTLS implementation splits TLS non-data record payload between
the control message buffer (which includes the type such as TLS
aler or TLS cipher change) and the rest of the payload (say TLS
alert's level/description) which goes into the msg payload buffer.
This patch proposes to rework how control messages are setup and
used by sock_recvmsg().
If no control message structure is setup, kTLS layer will read and
process TLS data record types. As soon as it encounters a TLS control
message, it would return an error. At that point, NFS can setup a
kvec backed msg buffer and read in the control message such as a
TLS alert. Msg iterator can advance the kvec pointer as a part of
the copy process thus we need to revert the iterator before calling
into the tls_alert_recv.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh()
If two calls to nfsd_open_local_fh() race and both successfully call
nfsd_file_acquire_local(), they will both get an extra reference to the
net to accompany the file reference stored in *pnf.
One of them will fail to store (using xchg()) the file reference in
*pnf and will drop that reference but WON'T drop the accompanying
reference to the net. This leak means that when the nfs server is shut
down it will hang in nfsd_shutdown_net() waiting for
&nn->nfsd_net_free_done.
This patch adds the missing nfsd_net_put().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: mqprio: fix stack out-of-bounds write in tc entry parsing
TCA_MQPRIO_TC_ENTRY_INDEX is validated using
NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE), which allows the value
TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE (16). This leads to a 4-byte out-of-bounds stack
write in the fp[] array, which only has room for 16 elements (0–15).
Fix this by changing the policy to allow only up to TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE - 1.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
benet: fix BUG when creating VFs
benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created:
kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[...]
RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0
be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net]
be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net]
be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net]
be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net]
be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net]
sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530
vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60
ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0
be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh.
Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: fbnic: unlink NAPIs from queues on error to open
CI hit a UaF in fbnic in the AF_XDP portion of the queues.py test.
The UaF is in the __sk_mark_napi_id_once() call in xsk_bind(),
NAPI has been freed. Looks like the device failed to open earlier,
and we lack clearing the NAPI pointer from the queue.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts
A security exploit was discovered in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv
due to its assumption that there is valid data in the msghdr's
iterator's kvec.
Instead, this patch proposes the rework how control messages are
setup and used by sock_recvmsg().
If no control message structure is setup, kTLS layer will read and
process TLS data record types. As soon as it encounters a TLS control
message, it would return an error. At that point, NFS can setup a kvec
backed control buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS
alert. Scott found that a msg iterator can advance the kvec pointer
as a part of the copy process thus we need to revert the iterator
before calling into the tls_alert_recv.