Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.161 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates
A chain/flowtable update with duplicated devices in the same batch is
possible. Unfortunately, netdev event path only removes the first
device that is found, leaving unregistered the hook of the duplicated
device.
Check if a duplicated device exists in the transaction batch, bail out
with EEXIST in such case.
WARNING is hit when unregistering the hook:
[49042.221275] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 8425 at net/netfilter/core.c:340 nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150
[49042.221375] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 8425 Comm: nft Tainted: G S 6.16.0+ #170 PREEMPT(full)
[...]
[49042.221382] RIP: 0010:nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: No more self recovery
When a node withdraws and it turns out that it is the only node that has
the filesystem mounted, gfs2 currently tries to replay the local journal
to bring the filesystem back into a consistent state. Not only is that
a very bad idea, it has also never worked because gfs2_recover_func()
will refuse to do anything during a withdraw.
However, before even getting to this point, gfs2_recover_func()
dereferences sdp->sd_jdesc->jd_inode. This was a use-after-free before
commit 04133b607a78 ("gfs2: Prevent double iput for journal on error")
and is a NULL pointer dereference since then.
Simply get rid of self recovery to fix that.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: Fix error code in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start()
Preserve the error code if iwl_setup_deferred_work() fails. The current
code returns ERR_PTR(0) (which is NULL) on this path. I believe the
missing error code potentially leads to a use after free involving
debugfs.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()
Callers of wdev_chandef() must hold the wiphy mutex.
But the worker cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk() never takes the lock.
Which triggers the warning below with the mesh_peer_connected_dfs
test from hostapd and not (yet) released mac80211 code changes:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 495 at net/wireless/chan.c:1552 wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 495 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-wt-g03960e6f9d47 #33 13c287eeabfe1efea01c0bcc863723ab082e17cf
Workqueue: cfg80211 cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk
Stack:
00000000 00000001 ffffff00 6093267c
00000000 6002ec30 6d577c50 60037608
00000000 67e8d108 6063717b 00000000
Call Trace:
[<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98
[<6003c2b3>] show_stack+0x10e/0x11a
[<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98
[<60037608>] dump_stack_lvl+0x71/0xb8
[<6063717b>] ? wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
[<6003766d>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
[<6005d1b7>] __warn+0x101/0x20f
[<6005d3a8>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xe3/0x15d
[<600b0c5c>] ? mark_lock.part.0+0x0/0x4ec
[<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16
[<600b11a2>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5a/0x6e
[<6005d2c5>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0x15d
[<60052e53>] ? unblock_signals+0x3a/0xe7
[<60052f2d>] ? um_set_signals+0x2d/0x43
[<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16
[<607508b2>] ? lock_is_held_type+0x207/0x21f
[<6063717b>] wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
[<605f89b4>] regulatory_propagate_dfs_state+0x247/0x43f
[<60052f00>] ? um_set_signals+0x0/0x43
[<605e6bfd>] cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk+0x3a/0x4a
[<6007e460>] process_scheduled_works+0x3bc/0x60e
[<6007d0ec>] ? move_linked_works+0x4d/0x81
[<6007d120>] ? assign_work+0x0/0xaa
[<6007f81f>] worker_thread+0x220/0x2dc
[<600786ef>] ? set_pf_worker+0x0/0x57
[<60087c96>] ? to_kthread+0x0/0x43
[<6008ab3c>] kthread+0x2d3/0x2e2
[<6007f5ff>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x2dc
[<6006c05b>] ? calculate_sigpending+0x0/0x56
[<6003b37d>] new_thread_handler+0x4a/0x64
irq event stamp: 614611
hardirqs last enabled at (614621): [<00000000600bc96b>] __up_console_sem+0x82/0xaf
hardirqs last disabled at (614630): [<00000000600bc92c>] __up_console_sem+0x43/0xaf
softirqs last enabled at (614268): [<00000000606c55c6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x933/0x985
softirqs last disabled at (614266): [<00000000606c52d6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x643/0x985
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints
Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following
warning:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0
Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[...]
do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0
? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10
? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200
trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0
This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of
__string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and
reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next
automaton's data in this case).
The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null
terminator, but it should still be fixed.
Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid
reading out of bound memory.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode
w/ "mode=lfs" mount option, generic/299 will cause system panic as below:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2835!
Call Trace:
<TASK>
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x6f4/0xc50
f2fs_map_blocks+0x970/0x1550
f2fs_iomap_begin+0xb2/0x1e0
iomap_iter+0x1d6/0x430
__iomap_dio_rw+0x208/0x9a0
f2fs_file_write_iter+0x6b3/0xfa0
aio_write+0x15d/0x2e0
io_submit_one+0x55e/0xab0
__x64_sys_io_submit+0xa5/0x230
do_syscall_64+0x84/0x2f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x70f/0x720
The root cause of we run out-of-space is: in f2fs_map_blocks(), f2fs may
trigger foreground gc only if it allocates any physical block, it will be
a little bit later when there is multiple threads writing data w/
aio/dio/bufio method in parallel, since we always use OPU in lfs mode, so
f2fs_map_blocks() does block allocations aggressively.
In order to fix this issue, let's give a chance to trigger foreground
gc in prior to block allocation in f2fs_map_blocks().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic
The decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after
I/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read,
and the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet
due to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info)
is evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic.
The UAF case as below:
Thread A Thread B
- f2fs_decompress_end_io
- f2fs_put_dic
- queue_work
add free_dic work to post_read_wq
- do_unlink
- iput
- evict
- call_rcu
This file is deleted after read.
Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq
- rcu_do_batch
- f2fs_free_inode
- kmem_cache_free
inode is freed by rcu
- process_scheduled_works
- f2fs_late_free_dic
- f2fs_free_dic
- f2fs_release_decomp_mem
read (dic->inode)->i_compress_algorithm
This patch store compress_algorithm and sbi in dic to avoid inode UAF.
In addition, the previous solution is deprecated in [1] may cause system hang.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c36ab955-c8db-4a8b-a9d0-f07b5f426c3f@kernel.org
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tls: handle data disappearing from under the TLS ULP
TLS expects that it owns the receive queue of the TCP socket.
This cannot be guaranteed in case the reader of the TCP socket
entered before the TLS ULP was installed, or uses some non-standard
read API (eg. zerocopy ones). Replace the WARN_ON() and a buggy
early exit (which leaves anchor pointing to a freed skb) with real
error handling. Wipe the parsing state and tell the reader to retry.
We already reload the anchor every time we (re)acquire the socket lock,
so the only condition we need to avoid is an out of bounds read
(not having enough bytes in the socket for previously parsed record len).
If some data was read from under TLS but there's enough in the queue
we'll reload and decrypt what is most likely not a valid TLS record.
Leading to some undefined behavior from TLS perspective (corrupting
a stream? missing an alert? missing an attack?) but no kernel crash
should take place.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails
The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link.
When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file
name cannot be deleted.
The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode.
In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias()
is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call
make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already
found it there earlier".
In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we
got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits
and giggles".
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix double free in 'hci_discovery_filter_clear()'
Function 'hci_discovery_filter_clear()' frees 'uuids' array and then
sets it to NULL. There is a tiny chance of the following race:
'hci_cmd_sync_work()'
'update_passive_scan_sync()'
'hci_update_passive_scan_sync()'
'hci_discovery_filter_clear()'
kfree(uuids);
<-------------------------preempted-------------------------------->
'start_service_discovery()'
'hci_discovery_filter_clear()'
kfree(uuids); // DOUBLE FREE
<-------------------------preempted-------------------------------->
uuids = NULL;
To fix it let's add locking around 'kfree()' call and NULL pointer
assignment. Otherwise the following backtrace fires:
[ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ ] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:547!
[ ] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ ] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 246 Comm: bluetoothd Tainted: G O 6.12.19-kernel #1
[ ] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
[ ] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ ] pc : __slab_free+0xf8/0x348
[ ] lr : __slab_free+0x48/0x348
...
[ ] Call trace:
[ ] __slab_free+0xf8/0x348
[ ] kfree+0x164/0x27c
[ ] start_service_discovery+0x1d0/0x2c0
[ ] hci_sock_sendmsg+0x518/0x924
[ ] __sock_sendmsg+0x54/0x60
[ ] sock_write_iter+0x98/0xf8
[ ] do_iter_readv_writev+0xe4/0x1c8
[ ] vfs_writev+0x128/0x2b0
[ ] do_writev+0xfc/0x118
[ ] __arm64_sys_writev+0x20/0x2c
[ ] invoke_syscall+0x68/0xf0
[ ] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
[ ] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
[ ] el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
[ ] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x12c
[ ] el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198
[ ] Code: 8b0002e6 eb17031f 54fffbe1 d503201f (d4210000)
[ ] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19