Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.6.8 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache: prevent BUG_ON by blocking retries on failed device resumes
A cache device failing to resume due to mapping errors should not be
retried, as the failure leaves a partially initialized policy object.
Repeating the resume operation risks triggering BUG_ON when reloading
cache mappings into the incomplete policy object.
Reproduce steps:
1. create a cache metadata consisting of 512 or more cache blocks,
with some mappings stored in the first array block of the mapping
array. Here we use cache_restore v1.0 to build the metadata.
cat <<EOF >> cmeta.xml
<superblock uuid="" block_size="128" nr_cache_blocks="512" \
policy="smq" hint_width="4">
<mappings>
<mapping cache_block="0" origin_block="0" dirty="false"/>
</mappings>
</superblock>
EOF
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
cache_restore -i cmeta.xml -o /dev/mapper/cmeta --metadata-version=2
dmsetup remove cmeta
2. wipe the second array block of the mapping array to simulate
data degradations.
mapping_root=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=192 \
2>/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 "%u\n"')
ablock=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=$((4096*mapping_root+2056)) \
2>/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 "%u\n"')
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4k count=1 seek=$ablock
3. try bringing up the cache device. The resume is expected to fail
due to the broken array block.
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dmsetup create cache --notable
dmsetup load cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
dmsetup resume cache
4. try resuming the cache again. An unexpected BUG_ON is triggered
while loading cache mappings.
dmsetup resume cache
Kernel logs:
(snip)
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c:752!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 332 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 6.13.4 #3
RIP: 0010:smq_load_mapping+0x3e5/0x570
Fix by disallowing resume operations for devices that failed the
initial attempt.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rseq: Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
The rseq_cs field is documented as being set to 0 by user-space prior to
registration, however this is not currently enforced by the kernel. This
can result in a segfault on return to user-space if the value stored in
the rseq_cs field doesn't point to a valid struct rseq_cs.
The correct solution to this would be to fail the rseq registration when
the rseq_cs field is non-zero. However, some older versions of glibc
will reuse the rseq area of previous threads without clearing the
rseq_cs field and will also terminate the process if the rseq
registration fails in a secondary thread. This wasn't caught in testing
because in this case the leftover rseq_cs does point to a valid struct
rseq_cs.
What we can do is clear the rseq_cs field on registration when it's
non-zero which will prevent segfaults on registration and won't break
the glibc versions that reuse rseq areas on thread creation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: lzo - Fix compression buffer overrun
Unlike the decompression code, the compression code in LZO never
checked for output overruns. It instead assumes that the caller
always provides enough buffer space, disregarding the buffer length
provided by the caller.
Add a safe compression interface that checks for the end of buffer
before each write. Use the safe interface in crypto/lzo.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
espintcp: fix skb leaks
A few error paths are missing a kfree_skb.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
__legitimize_mnt(): check for MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT should be under mount_lock
... or we risk stealing final mntput from sync umount - raising mnt_count
after umount(2) has verified that victim is not busy, but before it
has set MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT; in that case __legitimize_mnt() doesn't see
that it's safe to quietly undo mnt_count increment and leaves dropping
the reference to caller, where it'll be a full-blown mntput().
Check under mount_lock is needed; leaving the current one done before
taking that makes no sense - it's nowhere near common enough to bother
with.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()
Honour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise
strn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer).
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: fix debug actions order
The order of actions taken for debug was implemented incorrectly.
Now we implemented the dump split and do the FW reset only in the
middle of the dump (rather than the FW killing itself on error.)
As a result, some of the actions taken when applying the config
will now crash the device, so we need to fix the order.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_ring: Fix data race by tagging event_triggered as racy for KCSAN
syzbot reports a data-race when accessing the event_triggered, here is the
simplified stack when the issue occurred:
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in virtqueue_disable_cb / virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed
write to 0xffff8881025bc452 of 1 bytes by task 3288 on cpu 0:
virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed+0x42/0x3c0 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2653
start_xmit+0x230/0x1310 drivers/net/virtio_net.c:3264
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3800 [inline]
read to 0xffff8881025bc452 of 1 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
virtqueue_disable_cb_split drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:880 [inline]
virtqueue_disable_cb+0x92/0x180 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2566
skb_xmit_done+0x5f/0x140 drivers/net/virtio_net.c:777
vring_interrupt+0x161/0x190 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2715
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x95/0x490 kernel/irq/handle.c:158
handle_irq_event_percpu kernel/irq/handle.c:193 [inline]
value changed: 0x01 -> 0x00
==================================================================
When the data race occurs, the function virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed() sets
event_triggered to false, and virtqueue_disable_cb_split/packed() reads it
as false due to the race condition. Since event_triggered is an unreliable
hint used for optimization, this should only cause the driver temporarily
suggest that the device not send an interrupt notification when the event
index is used.
Fix this KCSAN reported data-race issue by explicitly tagging the access as
data_racy.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent
There is a race condition in the readdir concurrency process, which may
access the rsp buffer after it has been released, triggering the
following KASAN warning.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880099b819c by task a.out/342975
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 342975 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6+ #240 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xce/0x640
kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs]
cifs_readdir+0x12cb/0x3190 [cifs]
iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520
__x64_sys_getdents+0x134/0x220
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f996f64b9f9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89
f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01
f0 ff ff 0d f7 c3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 8
RSP: 002b:00007f996f53de78 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f996f53ecdc RCX: 00007f996f64b9f9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f996f53dea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: ffffffffffffff88
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc8cd9a500 R15: 00007f996f51e000
</TASK>
Allocated by task 408:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x117/0x3d0
mempool_alloc_noprof+0xf2/0x2c0
cifs_buf_get+0x36/0x80 [cifs]
allocate_buffers+0x1d2/0x330 [cifs]
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x22b/0x2690 [cifs]
kthread+0x394/0x720
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Freed by task 342979:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50
kmem_cache_free+0x2b8/0x500
cifs_buf_release+0x3c/0x70 [cifs]
cifs_readdir+0x1c97/0x3190 [cifs]
iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520
__x64_sys_getdents64+0x134/0x220
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880099b8000
which belongs to the cache cifs_request of size 16588
The buggy address is located 412 bytes inside of
freed 16588-byte region [ffff8880099b8000, ffff8880099bc0cc)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x99b8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0000266e01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880099b8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880099b8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880099b8180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880099b8200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880099b8280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
POC is available in the link [1].
The problem triggering process is as follows:
Process 1 Process 2
-----------------------------------
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/tipc: fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done
Syzbot reported a slab-use-after-free with the following call trace:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_aead_encrypt_done+0x4bd/0x510 net/tipc/crypto.c:840
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807a733000 by task kworker/1:0/25
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
tipc_aead_encrypt_done+0x4bd/0x510 net/tipc/crypto.c:840
crypto_request_complete include/crypto/algapi.h:266
aead_request_complete include/crypto/internal/aead.h:85
cryptd_aead_crypt+0x3b8/0x750 crypto/cryptd.c:772
crypto_request_complete include/crypto/algapi.h:266
cryptd_queue_worker+0x131/0x200 crypto/cryptd.c:181
process_one_work+0x9fb/0x1b60 kernel/workqueue.c:3231
Allocated by task 8355:
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:778
tipc_crypto_start+0xcc/0x9e0 net/tipc/crypto.c:1466
tipc_init_net+0x2dd/0x430 net/tipc/core.c:72
ops_init+0xb9/0x650 net/core/net_namespace.c:139
setup_net+0x435/0xb40 net/core/net_namespace.c:343
copy_net_ns+0x2f0/0x670 net/core/net_namespace.c:508
create_new_namespaces+0x3ea/0xb10 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc0/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:228
ksys_unshare+0x419/0x970 kernel/fork.c:3323
__do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3394
Freed by task 63:
kfree+0x12a/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:4557
tipc_crypto_stop+0x23c/0x500 net/tipc/crypto.c:1539
tipc_exit_net+0x8c/0x110 net/tipc/core.c:119
ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x180 net/core/net_namespace.c:173
cleanup_net+0x5b7/0xbf0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640
process_one_work+0x9fb/0x1b60 kernel/workqueue.c:3231
After freed the tipc_crypto tx by delete namespace, tipc_aead_encrypt_done
may still visit it in cryptd_queue_worker workqueue.
I reproduce this issue by:
ip netns add ns1
ip link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2
ip link set veth1 netns ns1
ip netns exec ns1 tipc bearer enable media eth dev veth1
ip netns exec ns1 tipc node set key this_is_a_master_key master
ip netns exec ns1 tipc bearer disable media eth dev veth1
ip netns del ns1
The key of reproduction is that, simd_aead_encrypt is interrupted, leading
to crypto_simd_usable() return false. Thus, the cryptd_queue_worker is
triggered, and the tipc_crypto tx will be visited.
tipc_disc_timeout
tipc_bearer_xmit_skb
tipc_crypto_xmit
tipc_aead_encrypt
crypto_aead_encrypt
// encrypt()
simd_aead_encrypt
// crypto_simd_usable() is false
child = &ctx->cryptd_tfm->base;
simd_aead_encrypt
crypto_aead_encrypt
// encrypt()
cryptd_aead_encrypt_enqueue
cryptd_aead_enqueue
cryptd_enqueue_request
// trigger cryptd_queue_worker
queue_work_on(smp_processor_id(), cryptd_wq, &cpu_queue->work)
Fix this by holding net reference count before encrypt.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18