Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.221 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: fix OOB read/write in network-coding decode
batadv_nc_skb_decode_packet() trusts coded_len and checks only against
skb->len. XOR starts at sizeof(struct batadv_unicast_packet), reducing
payload headroom, and the source skb length is not verified, allowing an
out-of-bounds read and a small out-of-bounds write.
Validate that coded_len fits within the payload area of both destination
and source sk_buffs before XORing.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()
syzbot reports a bug as below:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000009: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x69/0x2000 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4942
Call Trace:
lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5691
__raw_write_lock include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:209 [inline]
_raw_write_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:300
__drop_extent_tree+0x3ac/0x660 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1100
f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1116
f2fs_insert_range+0x2d5/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1664
f2fs_fallocate+0x4e4/0x6d0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1838
vfs_fallocate+0x54b/0x6b0 fs/open.c:324
ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:347 [inline]
__do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:355 [inline]
__se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:353 [inline]
__x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:353
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The root cause is race condition as below:
- since it tries to remount rw filesystem, so that do_remount won't
call sb_prepare_remount_readonly to block fallocate, there may be race
condition in between remount and fallocate.
- in f2fs_remount(), default_options() will reset mount option to default
one, and then update it based on result of parse_options(), so there is
a hole which race condition can happen.
Thread A Thread B
- f2fs_fill_super
- parse_options
- clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)
- f2fs_remount
- default_options
- set_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)
- f2fs_fallocate
- f2fs_insert_range
- f2fs_drop_extent_tree
- __drop_extent_tree
- __may_extent_tree
- test_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) return true
- write_lock(&et->lock) access NULL pointer
- parse_options
- clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix sysfs interface lifetime
The current nilfs2 sysfs support has issues with the timing of creation
and deletion of sysfs entries, potentially leading to null pointer
dereferences, use-after-free, and lockdep warnings.
Some of the sysfs attributes for nilfs2 per-filesystem instance refer to
metadata file "cpfile", "sufile", or "dat", but
nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group that creates those attributes is executed
before the inodes for these metadata files are loaded, and
nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group which deletes these sysfs entries is
called after releasing their metadata file inodes.
Therefore, access to some of these sysfs attributes may occur outside of
the lifetime of these metadata files, resulting in inode NULL pointer
dereferences or use-after-free.
In addition, the call to nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group() is made during
the locking period of the semaphore "ns_sem" of nilfs object, so the
shrinker call caused by the memory allocation for the sysfs entries, may
derive lock dependencies "ns_sem" -> (shrinker) -> "locks acquired in
nilfs_evict_inode()".
Since nilfs2 may acquire "ns_sem" deep in the call stack holding other
locks via its error handler __nilfs_error(), this causes lockdep to report
circular locking. This is a false positive and no circular locking
actually occurs as no inodes exist yet when
nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group() is called. Fortunately, the lockdep
warnings can be resolved by simply moving the call to
nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group() out of "ns_sem".
This fixes these sysfs issues by revising where the device's sysfs
interface is created/deleted and keeping its lifetime within the lifetime
of the metadata files above.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mfd: arizona: Use pm_runtime_resume_and_get() to prevent refcnt leak
In arizona_clk32k_enable(), we should use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()
as pm_runtime_get_sync() will increase the refcnt even when it
returns an error.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI/ASPM: Disable ASPM on MFD function removal to avoid use-after-free
Struct pcie_link_state->downstream is a pointer to the pci_dev of function
0. Previously we retained that pointer when removing function 0, and
subsequent ASPM policy changes dereferenced it, resulting in a
use-after-free warning from KASAN, e.g.:
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/remove
# echo powersave > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pcie_config_aspm_link+0x42d/0x500
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xae/0xe0
pcie_config_aspm_link+0x42d/0x500
pcie_aspm_set_policy+0x8e/0x1a0
param_attr_store+0x162/0x2c0
module_attr_store+0x3e/0x80
PCIe spec r6.0, sec 7.5.3.7, recommends that software program the same ASPM
Control value in all functions of multi-function devices.
Disable ASPM and free the pcie_link_state when any child function is
removed so we can discard the dangling pcie_link_state->downstream pointer
and maintain the same ASPM Control configuration for all functions.
[bhelgaas: commit log and comment]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: ses: Handle enclosure with just a primary component gracefully
This reverts commit 3fe97ff3d949 ("scsi: ses: Don't attach if enclosure
has no components") and introduces proper handling of case where there are
no detected secondary components, but primary component (enumerated in
num_enclosures) does exist. That fix was originally proposed by Ding Hui
<dinghui@sangfor.com.cn>.
Completely ignoring devices that have one primary enclosure and no
secondary one results in ses_intf_add() bailing completely
scsi 2:0:0:254: enclosure has no enumerated components
scsi 2:0:0:254: Failed to bind enclosure -12ven in valid configurations such
even on valid configurations with 1 primary and 0 secondary enclosures as
below:
# sg_ses /dev/sg0
3PARdata SES 3321
Supported diagnostic pages:
Supported Diagnostic Pages [sdp] [0x0]
Configuration (SES) [cf] [0x1]
Short Enclosure Status (SES) [ses] [0x8]
# sg_ses -p cf /dev/sg0
3PARdata SES 3321
Configuration diagnostic page:
number of secondary subenclosures: 0
generation code: 0x0
enclosure descriptor list
Subenclosure identifier: 0 [primary]
relative ES process id: 0, number of ES processes: 1
number of type descriptor headers: 1
enclosure logical identifier (hex): 20000002ac02068d
enclosure vendor: 3PARdata product: VV rev: 3321
type descriptor header and text list
Element type: Unspecified, subenclosure id: 0
number of possible elements: 1
The changelog for the original fix follows
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We can get a crash when disconnecting the iSCSI session,
the call trace like this:
[ffff00002a00fb70] kfree at ffff00000830e224
[ffff00002a00fba0] ses_intf_remove at ffff000001f200e4
[ffff00002a00fbd0] device_del at ffff0000086b6a98
[ffff00002a00fc50] device_unregister at ffff0000086b6d58
[ffff00002a00fc70] __scsi_remove_device at ffff00000870608c
[ffff00002a00fca0] scsi_remove_device at ffff000008706134
[ffff00002a00fcc0] __scsi_remove_target at ffff0000087062e4
[ffff00002a00fd10] scsi_remove_target at ffff0000087064c0
[ffff00002a00fd70] __iscsi_unbind_session at ffff000001c872c4
[ffff00002a00fdb0] process_one_work at ffff00000810f35c
[ffff00002a00fe00] worker_thread at ffff00000810f648
[ffff00002a00fe70] kthread at ffff000008116e98
In ses_intf_add, components count could be 0, and kcalloc 0 size scomp,
but not saved in edev->component[i].scratch
In this situation, edev->component[0].scratch is an invalid pointer,
when kfree it in ses_intf_remove_enclosure, a crash like above would happen
The call trace also could be other random cases when kfree cannot catch
the invalid pointer
We should not use edev->component[] array when the components count is 0
We also need check index when use edev->component[] array in
ses_enclosure_data_process
=====
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firewire: net: fix use after free in fwnet_finish_incoming_packet()
The netif_rx() function frees the skb so we can't dereference it to
save the skb->len.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper
Before blamed commit, pskb_may_pull() was used instead
of skb_header_pointer() in __vlan_get_protocol() and friends.
Few callers depended on skb->head being populated with MAC header,
syzbot caught one of them (skb_mac_gso_segment())
Add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() to make the intent clearer
and use it where sensible.
This is a more generic fix than commit e9d3f80935b6
("net/af_packet: make sure to pull mac header") which was
dealing with a similar issue.
kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2655 !
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
CPU: 0 PID: 1441 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.1.24-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023
RIP: 0010:__skb_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2655 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_mac_gso_segment+0x68f/0x6a0 net/core/gro.c:136
Code: fd 48 8b 5c 24 10 44 89 6b 70 48 c7 c7 c0 ae 0d 86 44 89 e6 e8 a1 91 d0 00 48 c7 c7 00 af 0d 86 48 89 de 31 d2 e8 d1 4a e9 ff <0f> 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001bd7520 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: ffffffff8469736a RBX: ffff88810f31dac0 RCX: ffff888115a18b00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90001bd75e8 R08: ffffffff84697183 R09: fffff5200037adf9
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 0000000000000012
R13: 000000000000fee5 R14: 0000000000005865 R15: 000000000000fed7
FS: 000055555633f300(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000000 CR3: 0000000116fea000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff847018dd>] __skb_gso_segment+0x32d/0x4c0 net/core/dev.c:3419
[<ffffffff8470398a>] skb_gso_segment include/linux/netdevice.h:4819 [inline]
[<ffffffff8470398a>] validate_xmit_skb+0x3aa/0xee0 net/core/dev.c:3725
[<ffffffff84707042>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1332/0x3300 net/core/dev.c:4313
[<ffffffff851a9ec7>] dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 include/linux/netdevice.h:3029
[<ffffffff851b4a82>] packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3111 [inline]
[<ffffffff851b4a82>] packet_sendmsg+0x49d2/0x6470 net/packet/af_packet.c:3142
[<ffffffff84669a12>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
[<ffffffff84669a12>] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]
[<ffffffff84669a12>] __sys_sendto+0x472/0x5f0 net/socket.c:2139
[<ffffffff84669c75>] __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2151 [inline]
[<ffffffff84669c75>] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2147 [inline]
[<ffffffff84669c75>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2147
[<ffffffff8551d40f>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff8551d40f>] 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
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This
memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling
path of the probe.
Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs
be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used
to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18