Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.52 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
start_kernel: Add __no_stack_protector function attribute
Back during the discussion of
commit a9a3ed1eff36 ("x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try")
we discussed the need for a function attribute to control the omission
of stack protectors on a per-function basis; at the time Clang had
support for no_stack_protector but GCC did not. This was fixed in
gcc-11. Now that the function attribute is available, let's start using
it.
Callers of boot_init_stack_canary need to use this function attribute
unless they're compiled with -fno-stack-protector, otherwise the canary
stored in the stack slot of the caller will differ upon the call to
boot_init_stack_canary. This will lead to a call to __stack_chk_fail()
then panic.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mvpp2_main: fix possible OOB write in mvpp2_ethtool_get_rxnfc()
rules is allocated in ethtool_get_rxnfc and the size is determined by
rule_cnt from user space. So rule_cnt needs to be check before using
rules to avoid OOB writing or NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Enhance the attribute size check
This combines the overflow and boundary check so that all attribute size
will be properly examined while enumerating them.
[ 169.181521] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570
[ 169.183161] Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880094b6240 by task mount/247
[ 169.184046]
[ 169.184925] CPU: 0 PID: 247 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #3
[ 169.185908] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 169.187066] Call Trace:
[ 169.187492] <TASK>
[ 169.188049] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63
[ 169.188495] print_report.cold+0xf5/0x689
[ 169.188964] ? run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570
[ 169.189331] kasan_report+0xa7/0x130
[ 169.189714] ? run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570
[ 169.190079] __asan_load1+0x51/0x60
[ 169.190634] run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570
[ 169.191290] ? run_pack+0x840/0x840
[ 169.191569] ? run_lookup_entry+0xb3/0x1f0
[ 169.192443] ? mi_enum_attr+0x20a/0x230
[ 169.192886] run_unpack_ex+0xad/0x3e0
[ 169.193276] ? run_unpack+0x570/0x570
[ 169.193557] ? ni_load_mi+0x80/0x80
[ 169.193889] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
[ 169.194236] ? mi_init+0x4a/0x70
[ 169.194496] attr_load_runs_vcn+0x166/0x1c0
[ 169.194851] ? attr_data_write_resident+0x250/0x250
[ 169.195188] mi_read+0x133/0x2c0
[ 169.195481] ntfs_iget5+0x277/0x1780
[ 169.196017] ? call_rcu+0x1c7/0x330
[ 169.196392] ? ntfs_get_block_bmap+0x70/0x70
[ 169.196708] ? evict+0x223/0x280
[ 169.197014] ? __kmalloc+0x33/0x540
[ 169.197305] ? wnd_init+0x15b/0x1b0
[ 169.197599] ntfs_fill_super+0x1026/0x1ba0
[ 169.197994] ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ 169.198299] ? vsprintf+0x20/0x20
[ 169.198583] ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0
[ 169.198930] ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150
[ 169.199269] get_tree_bdev+0x232/0x370
[ 169.199750] ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ 169.200094] ntfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20
[ 169.200431] vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x130
[ 169.200714] path_mount+0x654/0xfe0
[ 169.201067] ? putname+0x80/0xa0
[ 169.201358] ? finish_automount+0x2e0/0x2e0
[ 169.201965] ? putname+0x80/0xa0
[ 169.202445] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1c4/0x440
[ 169.203075] ? putname+0x80/0xa0
[ 169.203414] do_mount+0xd6/0xf0
[ 169.203719] ? path_mount+0xfe0/0xfe0
[ 169.203977] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20
[ 169.204382] __x64_sys_mount+0xca/0x110
[ 169.204711] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 169.205059] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 169.205571] RIP: 0033:0x7f67a80e948a
[ 169.206327] 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
[ 169.208296] RSP: 002b:00007ffddf020f58 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[ 169.209253] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055e2547a6060 RCX: 00007f67a80e948a
[ 169.209777] RDX: 000055e2547a6260 RSI: 000055e2547a62e0 RDI: 000055e2547aeaf0
[ 169.210342] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000055e2547a6280 R09: 0000000000000020
[ 169.210843] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000055e2547aeaf0
[ 169.211307] R13: 000055e2547a6260 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000ffffffff
[ 169.211913] </TASK>
[ 169.212304]
[ 169.212680] Allocated by task 0:
[ 169.212963] (stack is not available)
[ 169.213200]
[ 169.213472] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880094b5e00
[ 169.213472] which belongs to the cache UDP of size 1152
[ 169.214095] The buggy address is located 1088 bytes inside of
[ 169.214095] 1152-byte region [ffff8880094b5e00, ffff8880094b6280)
[ 169.214639]
[ 169.215004] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[ 169.215766] page:000000002e324c8c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x94b4
[ 169.218412] head:000000002e324c8c order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
[ 169.219078] flags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 169.220272] raw: 000fffffc0010200
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register()
When I register a kset in the following way:
static struct kset my_kset;
kobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, "my_kset");
ret = kset_register(&my_kset);
A null pointer dereference exception is occurred:
[ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \
virtual address 0000000000000028
... ...
[ 4453.810361] Call trace:
[ 4453.813062] kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34
[ 4453.817493] kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274
[ 4453.822005] kset_register+0x5c/0xb4
[ 4453.825820] my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]
... ...
Because I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.
According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:
- A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject. Every structure
that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.
So add sanity check to make sure kset->kobj.ktype is not NULL.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pwm: lpc32xx: Remove handling of PWM channels
Because LPC32xx PWM controllers have only a single output which is
registered as the only PWM device/channel per controller, it is known in
advance that pwm->hwpwm value is always 0. On basis of this fact
simplify the code by removing operations with pwm->hwpwm, there is no
controls which require channel number as input.
Even though I wasn't aware at the time when I forward ported that patch,
this fixes a null pointer dereference as lpc32xx->chip.pwms is NULL
before devm_pwmchip_add() is called.
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:
hsr: Fix uninit-value access in fill_frame_info()
Syzbot reports the following uninit-value access problem.
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:601 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hsr_forward_skb+0x9bd/0x30f0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:616
fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:601 [inline]
hsr_forward_skb+0x9bd/0x30f0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:616
hsr_dev_xmit+0x192/0x330 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:223
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4889 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4903 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3544 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3560
__dev_queue_xmit+0x34d0/0x52a0 net/core/dev.c:4340
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3082 [inline]
packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x8b1d/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x781/0xa30 net/socket.c:2176
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2188 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2184 [inline]
__ia32_sys_sendto+0x11f/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2184
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523
kmalloc_reserve+0x148/0x470 net/core/skbuff.c:559
__alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:644
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6299
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2794
packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2936 [inline]
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3030 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x70e8/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x781/0xa30 net/socket.c:2176
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2188 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2184 [inline]
__ia32_sys_sendto+0x11f/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2184
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
It is because VLAN not yet supported in hsr driver. Return error
when protocol is ETH_P_8021Q in fill_frame_info() now to fix it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs
There are three places that qla4xxx parses nlattrs:
- qla4xxx_set_chap_entry()
- qla4xxx_iface_set_param()
- qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param()
and each of them directly converts the nlattr to specific pointer of
structure without length checking. This could be dangerous as those
attributes are not validated and a malformed nlattr (e.g., length 0) could
result in an OOB read that leaks heap dirty data.
Add the nla_len check before accessing the nlattr data and return EINVAL if
the length check fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: multitouch: Correct devm device reference for hidinput input_dev name
Reference the HID device rather than the input device for the devm
allocation of the input_dev name. Referencing the input_dev would lead to a
use-after-free when the input_dev was unregistered and subsequently fires a
uevent that depends on the name. At the point of firing the uevent, the
name would be freed by devres management.
Use devm_kasprintf to simplify the logic for allocating memory and
formatting the input_dev name string.
CVSS Score
7.8
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