Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.8.17 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
selinux: Add boundary check in put_entry()
Just like next_entry(), boundary check is necessary to prevent memory
out-of-bound access.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PM: hibernate: defer device probing when resuming from hibernation
syzbot is reporting hung task at misc_open() [1], for there is a race
window of AB-BA deadlock which involves probe_count variable. Currently
wait_for_device_probe() from snapshot_open() from misc_open() can sleep
forever with misc_mtx held if probe_count cannot become 0.
When a device is probed by hub_event() work function, probe_count is
incremented before the probe function starts, and probe_count is
decremented after the probe function completed.
There are three cases that can prevent probe_count from dropping to 0.
(a) A device being probed stopped responding (i.e. broken/malicious
hardware).
(b) A process emulating a USB device using /dev/raw-gadget interface
stopped responding for some reason.
(c) New device probe requests keeps coming in before existing device
probe requests complete.
The phenomenon syzbot is reporting is (b). A process which is holding
system_transition_mutex and misc_mtx is waiting for probe_count to become
0 inside wait_for_device_probe(), but the probe function which is called
from hub_event() work function is waiting for the processes which are
blocked at mutex_lock(&misc_mtx) to respond via /dev/raw-gadget interface.
This patch mitigates (b) by deferring wait_for_device_probe() from
snapshot_open() to snapshot_write() and snapshot_ioctl(). Please note that
the possibility of (b) remains as long as any thread which is emulating a
USB device via /dev/raw-gadget interface can be blocked by uninterruptible
blocking operations (e.g. mutex_lock()).
Please also note that (a) and (c) are not addressed. Regarding (c), we
should change the code to wait for only one device which contains the
image for resuming from hibernation. I don't know how to address (a), for
use of timeout for wait_for_device_probe() might result in loss of user
data in the image. Maybe we should require the userland to wait for the
image device before opening /dev/snapshot interface.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/radeon: fix potential buffer overflow in ni_set_mc_special_registers()
The last case label can write two buffers 'mc_reg_address[j]' and
'mc_data[j]' with 'j' offset equal to SMC_NISLANDS_MC_REGISTER_ARRAY_SIZE
since there are no checks for this value in both case labels after the
last 'j++'.
Instead of changing '>' to '>=' there, add the bounds check at the start
of the second 'case' (the first one already has it).
Also, remove redundant last checks for 'j' index bigger than array size.
The expression is always false. Moreover, before or after the patch
'table->last' can be equal to SMC_NISLANDS_MC_REGISTER_ARRAY_SIZE and it
seems it can be a valid value.
Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath11k: fix netdev open race
Make sure to allocate resources needed before registering the device.
This specifically avoids having a racing open() trigger a BUG_ON() in
mod_timer() when ath11k_mac_op_start() is called before the
mon_reap_timer as been set up.
I did not see this issue with next-20220310, but I hit it on every probe
with next-20220511. Perhaps some timing changed in between.
Here's the backtrace:
[ 51.346947] kernel BUG at kernel/time/timer.c:990!
[ 51.346958] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
[ 51.578225] Call trace:
[ 51.583293] __mod_timer+0x298/0x390
[ 51.589518] mod_timer+0x14/0x20
[ 51.595368] ath11k_mac_op_start+0x41c/0x4a0 [ath11k]
[ 51.603165] drv_start+0x38/0x60 [mac80211]
[ 51.610110] ieee80211_do_open+0x29c/0x7d0 [mac80211]
[ 51.617945] ieee80211_open+0x60/0xb0 [mac80211]
[ 51.625311] __dev_open+0x100/0x1c0
[ 51.631420] __dev_change_flags+0x194/0x210
[ 51.638214] dev_change_flags+0x24/0x70
[ 51.644646] do_setlink+0x228/0xdb0
[ 51.650723] __rtnl_newlink+0x460/0x830
[ 51.657162] rtnl_newlink+0x4c/0x80
[ 51.663229] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x124/0x390
[ 51.669917] netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x130
[ 51.676314] rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x30
[ 51.682460] netlink_unicast+0x250/0x310
[ 51.688960] netlink_sendmsg+0x19c/0x3e0
[ 51.695458] ____sys_sendmsg+0x220/0x290
[ 51.701938] ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xc0
[ 51.708148] __sys_sendmsg+0x68/0xd0
[ 51.714254] __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x28/0x40
[ 51.720900] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x120
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: of: Fix refcount leak bug in of_get_regulation_constraints()
We should call the of_node_put() for the reference returned by
of_get_child_by_name() which has increased the refcount.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb
Syzbot reported use-after-free Read in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb() [0]. The
problem was in incorrect htc_handle->drv_priv initialization.
Probable call trace which can trigger use-after-free:
ath9k_htc_probe_device()
/* htc_handle->drv_priv = priv; */
ath9k_htc_wait_for_target() <--- Failed
ieee80211_free_hw() <--- priv pointer is freed
<IRQ>
...
ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb()
ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream()
RX_STAT_INC() <--- htc_handle->drv_priv access
In order to not add fancy protection for drv_priv we can move
htc_handle->drv_priv initialization at the end of the
ath9k_htc_probe_device() and add helper macro to make
all *_STAT_* macros NULL safe, since syzbot has reported related NULL
deref in that macros [1]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio-gpu: fix a missing check to avoid NULL dereference
'cache_ent' could be set NULL inside virtio_gpu_cmd_get_capset()
and it will lead to a NULL dereference by a lately use of it
(i.e., ptr = cache_ent->caps_cache). Fix it with a NULL check.
[ kraxel: minor codestyle fixup ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: fix potential 32-bit overflow when accessing ARRAY map element
If BPF array map is bigger than 4GB, element pointer calculation can
overflow because both index and elem_size are u32. Fix this everywhere
by forcing 64-bit multiplication. Extract this formula into separate
small helper and use it consistently in various places.
Speculative-preventing formula utilizing index_mask trick is left as is,
but explicit u64 casts are added in both places.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi()
The simple_write_to_buffer() function will succeed if even a single
byte is initialized. However, we need to initialize the whole buffer
to prevent information leaks. Just use memdup_user().
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: hisilicon/sec - don't sleep when in softirq
When kunpeng920 encryption driver is used to deencrypt and decrypt
packets during the softirq, it is not allowed to use mutex lock. The
kernel will report the following error:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/57/0/0x00000300
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1e4
show_stack+0x20/0x2c
dump_stack+0xd8/0x140
__schedule_bug+0x68/0x80
__schedule+0x728/0x840
schedule+0x50/0xe0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x24
__mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x594/0x5dc
__mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x30
mutex_lock+0x50/0x60
sec_request_init+0x8c/0x1a0 [hisi_sec2]
sec_process+0x28/0x1ac [hisi_sec2]
sec_skcipher_crypto+0xf4/0x1d4 [hisi_sec2]
sec_skcipher_encrypt+0x1c/0x30 [hisi_sec2]
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
esp_output_tail+0x348/0x5c0 [esp4]
esp_output+0x120/0x19c [esp4]
xfrm_output_one+0x25c/0x4d4
xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1fc
xfrm_output+0xac/0x3c0
xfrm4_output+0x64/0x130
ip_build_and_send_pkt+0x158/0x20c
tcp_v4_send_synack+0xdc/0x1f0
tcp_conn_request+0x7d0/0x994
tcp_v4_conn_request+0x58/0x6c
tcp_v6_conn_request+0xf0/0x100
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x1cc/0xd60
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10c/0x250
tcp_v4_rcv+0xfc4/0x10a4
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xf4/0x200
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x58/0x70
ip_local_deliver+0x68/0x120
ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x70/0x94
ip_list_rcv_finish.constprop.0+0x17c/0x1d0
ip_sublist_rcv+0x40/0xb0
ip_list_rcv+0x140/0x1dc
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x154/0x28c
__netif_receive_skb_list+0x120/0x1a0
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0xe4/0x1f0
napi_complete_done+0x70/0x1f0
gro_cell_poll+0x9c/0xb0
napi_poll+0xcc/0x264
net_rx_action+0xd4/0x21c
__do_softirq+0x130/0x358
irq_exit+0x11c/0x13c
__handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf0
gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x2c0
el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x40
default_idle_call+0x5c/0x1c0
cpuidle_idle_call+0x174/0x1b0
do_idle+0xc8/0x160
cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x11c
secondary_start_kernel+0x158/0x1e4
softirq: huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX 0000000093774ee4 with
preempt_count 00000100, exited with fffffe00?
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18