Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In September 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtlwifi: Fix global-out-of-bounds bug in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit()
There is a global-out-of-bounds reported by KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in
_rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffffa0773c43 by task NetworkManager/411
CPU: 6 PID: 411 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G D
6.1.0-rc8+ #144 e15588508517267d37
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009),
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
kasan_report+0xbb/0x1c0
_rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte.part.0+0x3d/0x84 [rtl8821ae]
rtl8821ae_phy_bb_config.cold+0x346/0x641 [rtl8821ae]
rtl8821ae_hw_init+0x1f5e/0x79b0 [rtl8821ae]
...
</TASK>
The root cause of the problem is that the comparison order of
"prate_section" in _rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit() is wrong. The
_rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() is used to compare the first n bytes of the two
strings from tail to head, which causes the problem. In the
_rtl8812ae_phy_set_txpower_limit(), it was originally intended to meet
this requirement by carefully designing the comparison order.
For example, "pregulation" and "pbandwidth" are compared in order of
length from small to large, first is 3 and last is 4. However, the
comparison order of "prate_section" dose not obey such order requirement,
therefore when "prate_section" is "HT", when comparing from tail to head,
it will lead to access out of bounds in _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte(). As
mentioned above, the _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() has the same function as
strcmp(), so just strcmp() is enough.
Fix it by removing _rtl8812ae_eq_n_byte() and use strcmp() barely.
Although it can be fixed by adjusting the comparison order of
"prate_section", this may cause the value of "rate_section" to not be
from 0 to 5. In addition, commit "21e4b0726dc6" not only moved driver
from staging to regular tree, but also added setting txpower limit
function during the driver config phase, so the problem was introduced
by this commit.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kcm: annotate data-races around kcm->rx_wait
kcm->rx_psock can be read locklessly in kcm_rfree().
Annotate the read and writes accordingly.
syzbot reported:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kcm_rcv_strparser / kcm_rfree
write to 0xffff88810784e3d0 of 1 bytes by task 1823 on cpu 1:
reserve_rx_kcm net/kcm/kcmsock.c:283 [inline]
kcm_rcv_strparser+0x250/0x3a0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:363
__strp_recv+0x64c/0xd20 net/strparser/strparser.c:301
strp_recv+0x6d/0x80 net/strparser/strparser.c:335
tcp_read_sock+0x13e/0x5a0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1703
strp_read_sock net/strparser/strparser.c:358 [inline]
do_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:406 [inline]
strp_work+0xe8/0x180 net/strparser/strparser.c:415
process_one_work+0x3d3/0x720 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x618/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x1a9/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
read to 0xffff88810784e3d0 of 1 bytes by task 17869 on cpu 0:
kcm_rfree+0x121/0x220 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:181
skb_release_head_state+0x8e/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:841
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:852 [inline]
__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:868 [inline]
kfree_skb_reason+0x5c/0x260 net/core/skbuff.c:891
kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1216 [inline]
kcm_recvmsg+0x226/0x2b0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1161
____sys_recvmsg+0x16c/0x2e0
___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2743 [inline]
do_recvmmsg+0x2f1/0x710 net/socket.c:2837
__sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2916 [inline]
__do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2939 [inline]
__se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2932 [inline]
__x64_sys_recvmmsg+0xde/0x160 net/socket.c:2932
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
value changed: 0x01 -> 0x00
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 17869 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-syzkaller-00010-gbb1a1146467a-dirty #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kprobes: Fix check for probe enabled in kill_kprobe()
In kill_kprobe(), the check whether disarm_kprobe_ftrace() needs to be
called always fails. This is because before that we set the
KPROBE_FLAG_GONE flag for kprobe so that "!kprobe_disabled(p)" is always
false.
The disarm_kprobe_ftrace() call introduced by commit:
0cb2f1372baa ("kprobes: Fix NULL pointer dereference at kprobe_ftrace_handler")
to fix the NULL pointer reference problem. When the probe is enabled, if
we do not disarm it, this problem still exists.
Fix it by putting the probe enabled check before setting the
KPROBE_FLAG_GONE flag.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: rtsx_pci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, the memory
that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() will be leaked and it will lead a kernel
crash because of deleting not added device in the remove path.
So fix this by checking the return value and calling mmc_free_host() in the
error path, beside, runtime PM also needs be disabled.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: moxart: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, the memory
that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() will be leaked and it will lead a kernel
crash because of deleting not added device in the remove path.
So fix this by checking the return value and goto error path which will call
mmc_free_host().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()
A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed.
unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............
backtrace:
[<00000000e7561ff8>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60
[<000000000b1954a0>] 0xffffffffc45200a9
[<00000000abbf1da0>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
[<000000001505ee87>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
[<00000000958079ad>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110
[<00000000117e4696>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
[<00000000f74b12d2>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000008fc6fcde>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return
value of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config
allocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked.
vkms_init()
config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated
...
return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked
Fix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the
config if error happened.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix the assign logic of iocb
commit 18ae8d12991b ("f2fs: show more DIO information in tracepoint")
introduces iocb field in 'f2fs_direct_IO_enter' trace event
And it only assigns the pointer and later it accesses its field
in trace print log.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc04cef3d30
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000007
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
pc : trace_raw_output_f2fs_direct_IO_enter+0x54/0xa4
lr : trace_raw_output_f2fs_direct_IO_enter+0x2c/0xa4
sp : ffffffc0443cbbd0
x29: ffffffc0443cbbf0 x28: ffffff8935b120d0 x27: ffffff8935b12108
x26: ffffff8935b120f0 x25: ffffff8935b12100 x24: ffffff8935b110c0
x23: ffffff8935b10000 x22: ffffff88859a936c x21: ffffff88859a936c
x20: ffffff8935b110c0 x19: ffffff8935b10000 x18: ffffffc03b195060
x17: ffffff8935b11e76 x16: 00000000000000cc x15: ffffffef855c4f2c
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 000000000000004e x12: ffff0000ffffff00
x11: ffffffef86c350d0 x10: 00000000000010c0 x9 : 000000000fe0002c
x8 : ffffffc04cef3d28 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : 0000000002000000
x5 : ffffff8935b11e9a x4 : 0000000000006250 x3 : ffff0a00ffffff04
x2 : 0000000000000002 x1 : ffffffef86a0a31f x0 : ffffff8935b10000
Call trace:
trace_raw_output_f2fs_direct_IO_enter+0x54/0xa4
print_trace_fmt+0x9c/0x138
print_trace_line+0x154/0x254
tracing_read_pipe+0x21c/0x380
vfs_read+0x108/0x3ac
ksys_read+0x7c/0xec
__arm64_sys_read+0x20/0x30
invoke_syscall+0x60/0x150
el0_svc_common.llvm.1237943816091755067+0xb8/0xf8
do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0
Fix it by copying the required variables for printing and while at
it fix the similar issue at some other places in the same file.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost/vsock: Use kvmalloc/kvfree for larger packets.
When copying a large file over sftp over vsock, data size is usually 32kB,
and kmalloc seems to fail to try to allocate 32 32kB regions.
vhost-5837: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x24040c0
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffb6a0df64>] dump_stack+0x97/0xdb
[<ffffffffb68d6aed>] warn_alloc_failed+0x10f/0x138
[<ffffffffb68d868a>] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x38/0xc8
[<ffffffffb664619f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x84c/0x90d
[<ffffffffb6646e56>] alloc_kmem_pages+0x17/0x19
[<ffffffffb6653a26>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2b/0xdb
[<ffffffffb66682f3>] __kmalloc+0x177/0x1f7
[<ffffffffb66e0d94>] ? copy_from_iter+0x8d/0x31d
[<ffffffffc0689ab7>] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x1fa/0x301 [vhost_vsock]
[<ffffffffc06828d9>] vhost_worker+0xf7/0x157 [vhost]
[<ffffffffb683ddce>] kthread+0xfd/0x105
[<ffffffffc06827e2>] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x22e/0x22e [vhost]
[<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3
[<ffffffffb6eb332e>] ret_from_fork+0x4e/0x80
[<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3
Work around by doing kvmalloc instead.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Validate BOOT record_size
When the NTFS BOOT record_size field < 0, it represents a
shift value. However, there is no sanity check on the shift result
and the sbi->record_bits calculation through blksize_bits() assumes
the size always > 256, which could lead to NPD while mounting a
malformed NTFS image.
[ 318.675159] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000158
[ 318.675682] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 318.675869] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 318.676246] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 318.676502] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 318.676934] CPU: 0 PID: 259 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.19.0 #5
[ 318.677289] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 318.678136] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0x2d/0x1c0
[ 318.678656] Code: 89 ca 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 cc 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 180
[ 318.679848] RSP: 0018:ffffa6c8c0297bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246
[ 318.680104] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000080
[ 318.680790] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 318.681679] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 318.682577] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000080
[ 318.683015] R13: ffff8d5582e68400 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 318.683618] FS: 00007fd9e1c81e40(0000) GS:ffff8d55fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 318.684280] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 318.684651] CR2: 0000000000000158 CR3: 0000000002e1a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 318.685623] Call Trace:
[ 318.686607] <TASK>
[ 318.686872] ? ntfs_alloc_inode+0x1a/0x60
[ 318.687235] attr_load_runs_vcn+0x2b/0xa0
[ 318.687468] mi_read+0xbb/0x250
[ 318.687576] ntfs_iget5+0x114/0xd90
[ 318.687750] ntfs_fill_super+0x588/0x11b0
[ 318.687953] ? put_ntfs+0x130/0x130
[ 318.688065] ? snprintf+0x49/0x70
[ 318.688164] ? put_ntfs+0x130/0x130
[ 318.688256] get_tree_bdev+0x16a/0x260
[ 318.688407] vfs_get_tree+0x20/0xb0
[ 318.688519] path_mount+0x2dc/0x9b0
[ 318.688877] do_mount+0x74/0x90
[ 318.689142] __x64_sys_mount+0x89/0xd0
[ 318.689636] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 318.689998] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 318.690318] RIP: 0033:0x7fd9e133c48a
[ 318.690687] Code: 48 8b 0d 11 fa 2a 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 008
[ 318.691357] RSP: 002b:00007ffd374406c8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[ 318.691632] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564d0b051080 RCX: 00007fd9e133c48a
[ 318.691920] RDX: 0000564d0b051280 RSI: 0000564d0b051300 RDI: 0000564d0b0596a0
[ 318.692123] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000564d0b0512a0 R09: 0000000000000020
[ 318.692349] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000564d0b0596a0
[ 318.692673] R13: 0000564d0b051280 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000ffffffff
[ 318.693007] </TASK>
[ 318.693271] Modules linked in:
[ 318.693614] CR2: 0000000000000158
[ 318.694446] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 318.694779] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0x2d/0x1c0
[ 318.694952] Code: 89 ca 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 cc 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 180
[ 318.696042] RSP: 0018:ffffa6c8c0297bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246
[ 318.696531] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000080
[ 318.698114] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 318.699286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 318.699795] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000080
[ 318.700236] R13: ffff8d5582e68400 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 318.700973] FS: 00007fd9e1c81e40(0000) GS:ffff8d55fdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpasim: fix memory leak when freeing IOTLBs
After commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support"),
vdpasim->iommu became an array of IOTLB, so we should clean the
mappings of each free one by one instead of just deleting the ranges
in the first IOTLB which may leak maps.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15