Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.301 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash()
The ext4_dirhash() will *almost* never fail, especially when the hash
tree feature was first introduced. However, with the addition of
support of encrypted, casefolded file names, that function can most
certainly fail today.
So make sure the callers of ext4_dirhash() properly check for
failures, and reflect the errors back up to their callers.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iw_cxgb4: Fix potential NULL dereference in c4iw_fill_res_cm_id_entry()
This condition needs to match the previous "if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {"
exactly to avoid a NULL dereference of either "listen_ep" or "ep". The
problem is that "epcp" has been re-assigned so just testing
"if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {" a second time is not sufficient.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: cx23885: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() and buffer_finish()
When the driver calls cx23885_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer
risc->cpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr
deref is triggered.
This bug is similar to the following one:
https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71.
We believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side.
Similarly, we fix this by checking the return value of cx23885_risc_buffer()
and the value of risc->cpu before buffer free.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe()
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c:876 rtw_usb_probe()
warn: 'hw' from ieee80211_alloc_hw() not released on lines: 811
Fix this by modifying return to a goto statement.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit
WHen the ring exits, cleanup is done and the final cancelation and
waiting on completions is done by io_ring_exit_work. That function is
invoked by kworker, which doesn't take any signals. Because of that, it
doesn't really matter if we wait for completions in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. However, it does matter to the hung task
detection checker!
Normally we expect cancelations and completions to happen rather
quickly. Some test cases, however, will exit the ring and park the
owning task stopped (eg via SIGSTOP). If the owning task needs to run
task_work to complete requests, then io_ring_exit_work won't make any
progress until the task is runnable again. Hence io_ring_exit_work can
trigger the hung task detection, which is particularly problematic if
panic-on-hung-task is enabled.
As the ring exit doesn't take signals to begin with, have it wait
interruptibly rather than uninterruptibly. io_uring has a separate
stuck-exit warning that triggers independently anyway, so we're not
really missing anything by making this switch.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential memory leak in rtw_init_drv_sw()
In rtw_init_drv_sw(), there are various init functions are called to
populate the padapter structure and some checks for their return value.
However, except for the first one error path, the other five error paths
do not properly release the previous allocated resources, which leads to
various memory leaks.
This patch fixes them and keeps the success and error separate.
Note that these changes keep the form of `rtw_init_drv_sw()` in
"drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c". As there is no proper device
to test with, no runtime testing was performed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences
There are several places where we can crash the kernel by requesting
lines, unbinding the GPIO device, then calling any of the system calls
relevant to the GPIO character device's annonymous file descriptors:
ioctl(), read(), poll().
While I observed it with the GPIO simulator, it will also happen for any
of the GPIO devices that can be hot-unplugged - for instance any HID GPIO
expander (e.g. CP2112).
This affects both v1 and v2 uAPI.
This fixes it partially by checking if gdev->chip is not NULL but it
doesn't entirely remedy the situation as we still have a race condition
in which another thread can remove the device after the check.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/rockchip: lvds: fix PM usage counter unbalance in poweron
pm_runtime_get_sync will increment pm usage counter even it failed.
Forgetting to putting operation will result in reference leak here.
We fix it by replacing it with the newest pm_runtime_resume_and_get
to keep usage counter balanced.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue
The following warning is displayed when the tcp6-multi-diffip11 stress
test case of the LTP test suite is tested:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [ns-tcpserver:48198]
CPU: 0 PID: 48198 Comm: ns-tcpserver Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6+ #39
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes]
lr : 0x3f
sp : ffff80000ceaa1b0
x29: ffff80000ceaa1b0 x28: ffff0000df056100 x27: ffff0000e51e5280
x26: ffff80004df75030 x25: ffff0000e51e4600 x24: 000000000000003b
x23: 0000000000802080 x22: 000000000000003d x21: 0000000000000038
x20: 0000000080000020 x19: 000000000000000a x18: 0000000000000033
x17: ffff0000e51e4780 x16: ffff80004e2d1448 x15: ffff80004e2d1248
x14: ffff0000e51e4680 x13: ffff80004e2d1348 x12: ffff80004e2d1548
x11: ffff80004e2d1848 x10: ffff80004e2d1648 x9 : ffff80004e2d1748
x8 : ffff80004e2d1948 x7 : 000000000bcaf83d x6 : 000000000000001b
x5 : ffff80004e2d1048 x4 : 00000000761bf3bf x3 : 000000007f1dd0a3
x2 : ffff0000e51e4780 x1 : ffff0000e3b9a2f8 x0 : 00000000db44e872
Call trace:
des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes]
crypto_des3_ede_encrypt+0x1c/0x30 [des_generic]
crypto_cbc_encrypt+0x148/0x190
crypto_skcipher_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xc8/0xfc [authenc]
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv]
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6]
esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6]
xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec
xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0
xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac
__xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270
xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec
ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc
inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0
tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110
tcp_rcv_established+0x3c8/0x720
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0xdc/0x4a0
tcp_v6_rcv+0xc24/0xcb0
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xf0/0x574
ip6_input_finish+0x48/0x7c
ip6_input+0x48/0xc0
ip6_rcv_finish+0x80/0x9c
xfrm_trans_reinject+0xb0/0xf4
tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xf8/0x134
tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c
__do_softirq+0x128/0x368
do_softirq+0xb4/0xc0
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xb0/0xb4
put_cpu_fpsimd_context+0x40/0x70
kernel_neon_end+0x20/0x40
sha1_base_do_update.constprop.0.isra.0+0x11c/0x140 [sha1_ce]
sha1_ce_finup+0x94/0x110 [sha1_ce]
crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0
hmac_finup+0x48/0xe0
crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0
shash_digest_unaligned+0x74/0x90
crypto_shash_digest+0x4c/0x9c
shash_ahash_digest+0xc8/0xf0
shash_async_digest+0x28/0x34
crypto_ahash_digest+0x48/0xcc
crypto_authenc_genicv+0x88/0xcc [authenc]
crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xd8/0xfc [authenc]
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv]
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6]
esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6]
xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec
xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0
xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac
__xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270
xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec
ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc
inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0
tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110
tcp_push+0xb4/0x14c
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x71c/0xb64
tcp_sendmsg+0x40/0x6c
inet6_sendmsg+0x4c/0x80
sock_sendmsg+0x5c/0x6c
__sys_sendto+0x128/0x15c
__arm64_sys_sendto+0x30/0x40
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x170/0x194
do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c
el0_svc+0x28/0xe0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x13c
el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x184
Get softirq info by bcc tool:
./softirqs -NT 10
Tracing soft irq event time... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
15:34:34
SOFTIRQ TOTAL_nsecs
block 158990
timer 20030920
sched 46577080
net_rx 676746820
tasklet 9906067650
15:34:45
SOFTIRQ TOTAL_nsecs
block 86100
sched 38849790
net_rx
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix race condition validating r_parent before applying state
Add validation to ensure the cached parent directory inode matches the
directory info in MDS replies. This prevents client-side race conditions
where concurrent operations (e.g. rename) cause r_parent to become stale
between request initiation and reply processing, which could lead to
applying state changes to incorrect directory inodes.
[ idryomov: folded a kerneldoc fixup and a follow-up fix from Alex to
move CEPH_CAP_PIN reference when r_parent is updated:
When the parent directory lock is not held, req->r_parent can become
stale and is updated to point to the correct inode. However, the
associated CEPH_CAP_PIN reference was not being adjusted. The
CEPH_CAP_PIN is a reference on an inode that is tracked for
accounting purposes. Moving this pin is important to keep the
accounting balanced. When the pin was not moved from the old parent
to the new one, it created two problems: The reference on the old,
stale parent was never released, causing a reference leak.
A reference for the new parent was never acquired, creating the risk
of a reference underflow later in ceph_mdsc_release_request(). This
patch corrects the logic by releasing the pin from the old parent and
acquiring it for the new parent when r_parent is switched. This
ensures reference accounting stays balanced. ]
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01