Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In September 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix kernel crash due to null io->bio
We should return when io->bio is null before doing anything. Otherwise, panic.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
RIP: 0010:__submit_merged_write_cond+0x164/0x240 [f2fs]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
f2fs_submit_merged_write+0x1d/0x30 [f2fs]
commit_checkpoint+0x110/0x1e0 [f2fs]
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x9f7/0xf00 [f2fs]
? __pfx_issue_checkpoint_thread+0x10/0x10 [f2fs]
__checkpoint_and_complete_reqs+0x84/0x190 [f2fs]
? preempt_count_add+0x82/0xc0
? __pfx_issue_checkpoint_thread+0x10/0x10 [f2fs]
issue_checkpoint_thread+0x4c/0xf0 [f2fs]
? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xff/0x130
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()
Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue()
in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule()
Inject fault When select CONFIG_VCAP_KUNIT_TEST, the below memory leak
occurs. If kzalloc() for duprule succeeds, but the following
kmemdup() fails, the duprule, ckf and caf memory will be leaked. So kfree
them in the error path.
unreferenced object 0xffff122744c50600 (size 192):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 346, jiffies 4294896122 (age 911.812s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
10 27 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e 00 00 00 2c 01 00 00 .'..........,...
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 06 c5 44 27 12 ff ff ...........D'...
backtrace:
[<00000000394b0db8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x274/0x2f8
[<0000000001bedc67>] kmalloc_trace+0x38/0x88
[<00000000b0612f98>] vcap_dup_rule+0x50/0x460
[<000000005d2d3aca>] vcap_add_rule+0x8cc/0x1038
[<00000000eef9d0f8>] test_vcap_xn_rule_creator.constprop.0.isra.0+0x238/0x494
[<00000000cbda607b>] vcap_api_rule_remove_in_front_test+0x1ac/0x698
[<00000000c8766299>] kunit_try_run_case+0xe0/0x20c
[<00000000c4fe9186>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x50/0x94
[<00000000f6864acf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
[<0000000022e639b3>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: bdisp: Add missing check for create_workqueue
Add the check for the return value of the create_workqueue
in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog
Fix fout being fopen'ed but then not subsequently fclose'd. In the affected
branch, fout is otherwise going out of scope.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale
Running the 'kfree_rcu_test' test case [1] results in a splat [2].
The root cause is the kfree_scale_thread thread(s) continue running
after unloading the rcuscale module. This commit fixes that isue by
invoking kfree_scale_cleanup() from rcu_scale_cleanup() when removing
the rcuscale module.
[1] modprobe rcuscale kfree_rcu_test=1
// After some time
rmmod rcuscale
rmmod torture
[2] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc0601a87
#PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
PGD 11de4f067 P4D 11de4f067 PUD 11de51067 PMD 112f4d067 PTE 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1798 Comm: kfree_scale_thr Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-rcu+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:0xffffffffc0601a87
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffc0601a5d.
RSP: 0018:ffffb25bc2e57e18 EFLAGS: 00010297
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffc061f0b6 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff962fd0de RDI: ffffffff962fd0de
RBP: ffffb25bc2e57ea8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000a R15: 00000000001c1dbe
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff921fa2200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffc0601a5d CR3: 000000011de4c006 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? kvfree_call_rcu+0xf0/0x3a0
? kthread+0xf3/0x120
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
? ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in: rfkill sunrpc ... [last unloaded: torture]
CR2: ffffffffc0601a87
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-mq: fix NULL dereference on q->elevator in blk_mq_elv_switch_none
After grabbing q->sysfs_lock, q->elevator may become NULL because of
elevator switch.
Fix the NULL dereference on q->elevator by checking it with lock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Fix null-ptr-deref on inode->i_op in ntfs_lookup()
Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref bug:
ntfs3: loop0: Different NTFS' sector size (1024) and media sector size
(512)
ntfs3: loop0: Mark volume as dirty due to NTFS errors
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
RIP: 0010:d_flags_for_inode fs/dcache.c:1980 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__d_add+0x5ce/0x800 fs/dcache.c:2796
Call Trace:
<TASK>
d_splice_alias+0x122/0x3b0 fs/dcache.c:3191
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]
path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3688
do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3718
do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]
__do_sys_open fs/open.c:1334 [inline]
__se_sys_open fs/open.c:1330 [inline]
__x64_sys_open+0x221/0x270 fs/open.c:1330
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
If the MFT record of ntfs inode is not a base record, inode->i_op can be
NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen:
ntfs_lookup()
dir_search_u() # inode->i_op is set to NULL
d_splice_alias()
__d_add()
d_flags_for_inode() # inode->i_op->get_link null-ptr-deref
Fix this by adding a Check on inode->i_op before calling the
d_splice_alias() function.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udf: Do not update file length for failed writes to inline files
When write to inline file fails (or happens only partly), we still
updated length of inline data as if the whole write succeeded. Fix the
update of length of inline data to happen only if the write succeeds.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: check send stream number after wait_for_sndbuf
This patch fixes a corner case where the asoc out stream count may change
after wait_for_sndbuf.
When the main thread in the client starts a connection, if its out stream
count is set to N while the in stream count in the server is set to N - 2,
another thread in the client keeps sending the msgs with stream number
N - 1, and waits for sndbuf before processing INIT_ACK.
However, after processing INIT_ACK, the out stream count in the client is
shrunk to N - 2, the same to the in stream count in the server. The crash
occurs when the thread waiting for sndbuf is awake and sends the msg in a
non-existing stream(N - 1), the call trace is as below:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sctp_cmd_send_msg net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1114 [inline]
sctp_cmd_interpreter net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1777 [inline]
sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1199 [inline]
sctp_do_sm+0x197d/0x5310 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1170
sctp_primitive_SEND+0x9f/0xc0 net/sctp/primitive.c:163
sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x10eb/0x1a30 net/sctp/socket.c:1868
sctp_sendmsg+0x8d4/0x1d90 net/sctp/socket.c:2026
inet_sendmsg+0x9d/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:825
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:722 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xde/0x190 net/socket.c:745
The fix is to add an unlikely check for the send stream number after the
thread wakes up from the wait_for_sndbuf.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16