Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In October 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - Fix missing initialisation affecting gcm-aes-s390
Fix af_alg_alloc_areq() to initialise areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgt.sgl to point
to the scatterlist array in areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgl.
Without this, the gcm-aes-s390 driver will oops when it tries to do
gcm_walk_start() on req->dst because req->dst is set to the value of
areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgl by _aead_recvmsg() calling
aead_request_set_crypt().
The problem comes if an empty ciphertext is passed: the loop in
af_alg_get_rsgl() just passes straight out and doesn't set areq->first_rsgl
up.
This isn't a problem on x86_64 using gcmaes_crypt_by_sg() because, as far
as I can tell, that ignores req->dst and only uses req->src[*].
[*] Is this a bug in aesni-intel_glue.c?
The s390x oops looks something like:
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 0000000a00000000 TEID: 0000000a00000803
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:00000000a43a0007 R3:0000000000000024
Oops: 003b ilc:2 [#1] SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<000003ff7fc3d47e>] gcm_walk_start+0x16/0x28 [aes_s390]
[<00000000a2a342f2>] crypto_aead_decrypt+0x9a/0xb8
[<00000000a2a60888>] aead_recvmsg+0x478/0x698
[<00000000a2e519a0>] sock_recvmsg+0x70/0xb0
[<00000000a2e51a56>] sock_read_iter+0x76/0xa0
[<00000000a273e066>] vfs_read+0x26e/0x2a8
[<00000000a273e8c4>] ksys_read+0xbc/0x100
[<00000000a311d808>] __do_syscall+0x1d0/0x1f8
[<00000000a312ff30>] system_call+0x70/0x98
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<000003ff7fc3e6b4>] gcm_aes_crypt+0x104/0xa68 [aes_s390]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tunnels: fix kasan splat when generating ipv4 pmtu error
If we try to emit an icmp error in response to a nonliner skb, we get
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ip_compute_csum+0x134/0x220
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811c50db00 by task iperf3/1691
CPU: 2 PID: 1691 Comm: iperf3 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #309
[..]
kasan_report+0x105/0x140
ip_compute_csum+0x134/0x220
iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmp+0x554/0x1020
skb_tunnel_check_pmtu+0x513/0xb80
vxlan_xmit_one+0x139e/0x2ef0
vxlan_xmit+0x1867/0x2760
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ee/0x4f0
br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x4d1/0x660
[..]
ip_compute_csum() cannot deal with nonlinear skbs, so avoid it.
After this change, splat is gone and iperf3 is no longer stuck.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: do not assume skb mac_header is set
Drivers must not assume in their ndo_start_xmit() that
skbs have their mac_header set. skb->data is all what is needed.
bonding seems to be one of the last offender as caught by syzbot:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 skb_mac_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2913 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 bond_xmit_hash drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:4170 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 bond_xmit_3ad_xor_slave_get drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5149 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 bond_3ad_xor_xmit drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5186 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 __bond_start_xmit drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5442 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12155 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 bond_start_xmit+0x14ab/0x19d0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5470
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 12155 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/25/2023
RIP: 0010:skb_mac_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2907 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_mac_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2913 [inline]
RIP: 0010:bond_xmit_hash drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:4170 [inline]
RIP: 0010:bond_xmit_3ad_xor_slave_get drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5149 [inline]
RIP: 0010:bond_3ad_xor_xmit drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5186 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__bond_start_xmit drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5442 [inline]
RIP: 0010:bond_start_xmit+0x14ab/0x19d0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5470
Code: 8b 7c 24 30 e8 76 dd 1a 01 48 85 c0 74 0d 48 89 c3 e8 29 67 2e fe e9 15 ef ff ff e8 1f 67 2e fe e9 10 ef ff ff e8 15 67 2e fe <0f> 0b e9 45 f8 ff ff e8 09 67 2e fe e9 dc fa ff ff e8 ff 66 2e fe
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002fff6e0 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: ffffffff835874db RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: 0000000000040000
RDX: ffffc90004dcf000 RSI: 00000000000000b5 RDI: 00000000000000b6
RBP: ffffc90002fff8b8 R08: ffffffff83586d16 R09: ffffffff83586584
R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffff8881599fc780 R12: ffff88811b6a7b7e
R13: 1ffff110236d4f6f R14: ffff88811b6a7ac0 R15: 1ffff110236d4f76
FS: 00007f2e9eb47700(0000) GS:ffff8881f6b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2e421000 CR3: 000000010e6d4000 CR4: 00000000003526e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff8471a49f>] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4925 [inline]
[<ffffffff8471a49f>] __dev_direct_xmit+0x4ef/0x850 net/core/dev.c:4380
[<ffffffff851d845b>] dev_direct_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3043 [inline]
[<ffffffff851d845b>] packet_direct_xmit+0x18b/0x300 net/packet/af_packet.c:284
[<ffffffff851c7472>] packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3112 [inline]
[<ffffffff851c7472>] packet_sendmsg+0x4a22/0x64d0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3143
[<ffffffff8467a4b2>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
[<ffffffff8467a4b2>] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]
[<ffffffff8467a4b2>] __sys_sendto+0x472/0x5f0 net/socket.c:2139
[<ffffffff8467a715>] __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2151 [inline]
[<ffffffff8467a715>] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2147 [inline]
[<ffffffff8467a715>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2147
[<ffffffff8553071f>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff8553071f>] do_syscall_64+0x2f/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff85600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats
Memory allocated for firmware pdev, vdev and beacon statistics
are not released during rmmod.
Fix it by calling ath11k_fw_stats_free() function before hardware
unregister.
While at it, avoid calling ath11k_fw_stats_free() while processing
the firmware stats received in the WMI event because the local list
is getting spliced and reinitialised and hence there are no elements
in the list after splicing.
Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid fcport pointer dereference
Klocwork reported warning of NULL pointer may be dereferenced. The routine
exits when sa_ctl is NULL and fcport is allocated after the exit call thus
causing NULL fcport pointer to dereference at the time of exit.
To avoid fcport pointer dereference, exit the routine when sa_ctl is NULL.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
If something was written to the buffer just before destruction,
it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did
happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer
before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash
without KASAN):
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W O 6.3.0-rc1 #7
Stack:
60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
Call Trace:
[<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
[<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
[<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
[<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
[<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
[<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
[<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
[<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
[<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
[<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
[<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
[<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
[<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183
[...]
Allocated by task 411:
save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
__kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
__kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)
Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before
the buffers are destroyed.
Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a
single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: check for station first in client probe
When probing a client, first check if we have it, and then
check for the channel context, otherwise you can trigger
the warning there easily by probing when the AP isn't even
started yet. Since a client existing means the AP is also
operating, we can then keep the warning.
Also simplify the moved code a bit.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels
If the firmware sends us a corrupted MCC response with
n_channels much larger than the command response can be,
we might copy far too much (uninitialized) memory and
even crash if the n_channels is large enough to make it
run out of the one page allocated for the FW response.
Fix that by checking the lengths. Doing a < comparison
would be sufficient, but the firmware should be doing
it correctly, so check more strictly.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop
With this refcnt added in sctp_stream_priorities, we don't need to
traverse all streams to check if the prio is used by other streams
when freeing one stream's prio in sctp_sched_prio_free_sid(). This
can avoid a nested loop (up to 65535 * 65535), which may cause a
stuck as Ying reported:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 26s! [ksoftirqd/23:136]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sctp_sched_prio_free_sid+0xab/0x100 [sctp]
sctp_stream_free_ext+0x64/0xa0 [sctp]
sctp_stream_free+0x31/0x50 [sctp]
sctp_association_free+0xa5/0x200 [sctp]
Note that it doesn't need to use refcount_t type for this counter,
as its accessing is always protected under the sock lock.
v1->v2:
- add a check in sctp_sched_prio_set to avoid the possible prio_head
refcnt overflow.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix deadlock in tc route query code
Cited commit causes ABBA deadlock[0] when peer flows are created while
holding the devcom rw semaphore. Due to peer flows offload implementation
the lock is taken much higher up the call chain and there is no obvious way
to easily fix the deadlock. Instead, since tc route query code needs the
peer eswitch structure only to perform a lookup in xarray and doesn't
perform any sleeping operations with it, refactor the code for lockless
execution in following ways:
- RCUify the devcom 'data' pointer. When resetting the pointer
synchronously wait for RCU grace period before returning. This is fine
since devcom is currently only used for synchronization of
pairing/unpairing of eswitches which is rare and already expensive as-is.
- Wrap all usages of 'paired' boolean in {READ|WRITE}_ONCE(). The flag has
already been used in some unlocked contexts without proper
annotations (e.g. users of mlx5_devcom_is_paired() function), but it wasn't
an issue since all relevant code paths checked it again after obtaining the
devcom semaphore. Now it is also used by mlx5_devcom_get_peer_data_rcu() as
"best effort" check to return NULL when devcom is being unpaired. Note that
while RCU read lock doesn't prevent the unpaired flag from being changed
concurrently it still guarantees that reader can continue to use 'data'.
- Refactor mlx5e_tc_query_route_vport() function to use new
mlx5_devcom_get_peer_data_rcu() API which fixes the deadlock.
[0]:
[ 164.599612] ======================================================
[ 164.600142] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[ 164.600667] 6.3.0-rc3+ #1 Not tainted
[ 164.601021] ------------------------------------------------------
[ 164.601557] handler1/3456 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 164.601998] ffff88811f1714b0 (&esw->offloads.encap_tbl_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: mlx5e_attach_encap+0xd8/0x8b0 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.603078]
but task is already holding lock:
[ 164.603617] ffff88810137fc98 (&comp->sem){++++}-{3:3}, at: mlx5_devcom_get_peer_data+0x37/0x80 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.604459]
which lock already depends on the new lock.
[ 164.605190]
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ 164.605848]
-> #1 (&comp->sem){++++}-{3:3}:
[ 164.606380] down_read+0x39/0x50
[ 164.606772] mlx5_devcom_get_peer_data+0x37/0x80 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.607336] mlx5e_tc_query_route_vport+0x86/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.607914] mlx5e_tc_tun_route_lookup+0x1a4/0x1d0 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.608495] mlx5e_attach_decap_route+0xc6/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.609063] mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow+0x1ea/0x360 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.609627] __mlx5e_add_fdb_flow+0x2d2/0x430 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.610175] mlx5e_configure_flower+0x952/0x1a20 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.610741] tc_setup_cb_add+0xd4/0x200
[ 164.611146] fl_hw_replace_filter+0x14c/0x1f0 [cls_flower]
[ 164.611661] fl_change+0xc95/0x18a0 [cls_flower]
[ 164.612116] tc_new_tfilter+0x3fc/0xd20
[ 164.612516] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x418/0x5b0
[ 164.612936] netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
[ 164.613339] netlink_unicast+0x190/0x250
[ 164.613746] netlink_sendmsg+0x245/0x4a0
[ 164.614150] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60
[ 164.614522] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1d0/0x1e0
[ 164.614934] ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xc0
[ 164.615320] __sys_sendmsg+0x51/0x90
[ 164.615701] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
[ 164.616083] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
[ 164.616568]
-> #0 (&esw->offloads.encap_tbl_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[ 164.617210] __lock_acquire+0x159e/0x26e0
[ 164.617638] lock_acquire+0xc2/0x2a0
[ 164.618018] __mutex_lock+0x92/0xcd0
[ 164.618401] mlx5e_attach_encap+0xd8/0x8b0 [mlx5_core]
[ 164.618943] post_process_attr+0x153/0x2d0 [
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04