Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.38.1 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4_fc_replay_scan()
For scan loop must ensure that at least EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN space. If remain
space less than EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN which will lead to out of bound read
when mounting corrupt file system image.
ADD_RANGE/HEAD/TAIL is needed to add extra check when do journal scan, as this
three tags will read data during scan, tag length couldn't less than data length
which will read.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present
The bug arises when a USB device claims to be an ATH9K but doesn't
have the expected endpoints. (In this case there was an interrupt
endpoint where the driver expected a bulk endpoint.) The kernel
needs to be able to handle such devices without getting an internal error.
usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 500 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493 usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 500 Comm: kworker/3:2 Not tainted 5.10.135-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493
Call Trace:
ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:908 [inline]
ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs+0x75e/0x1010 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1019
ath9k_hif_usb_dev_init drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1109 [inline]
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x142/0x530 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1242
request_firmware_work_func+0x12e/0x240 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1097
process_one_work+0x9af/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2279
worker_thread+0x61d/0x12f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2425
kthread+0x3b4/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:313
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:299
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()
ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if
ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will report memleak.
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810eeb5800 (size 128):
comm "modprobe", pid 4507, jiffies 4296182506 (age 55.888s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
c0 40 14 a0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .@..............
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000001e59e1cd>] __register_sysctl_table+0xca/0xef0
[<00000000c04f70f7>] 0xffffffffa0050037
[<000000001bd12912>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480
[<0000000064f766c9>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680
[<000000002ba52db0>] load_module+0x6441/0x6f20
[<000000009772580d>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0
[<00000000380c1f22>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<000000004cf473bc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range
If we get -ENOMEM while dropping file extent items in a given range, at
btrfs_drop_extents(), due to failure to allocate memory when attempting to
increment the reference count for an extent or drop the reference count,
we handle it with a BUG_ON(). This is excessive, instead we can simply
abort the transaction and return the error to the caller. In fact most
callers of btrfs_drop_extents(), directly or indirectly, already abort
the transaction if btrfs_drop_extents() returns any error.
Also, we already have error paths at btrfs_drop_extents() that may return
-ENOMEM and in those cases we abort the transaction, like for example
anything that changes the b+tree may return -ENOMEM due to a failure to
allocate a new extent buffer when COWing an existing extent buffer, such
as a call to btrfs_duplicate_item() for example.
So replace the BUG_ON() calls with proper logic to abort the transaction
and return the error.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter()
When kfifo_alloc() failed in lbs_init_adapter(), cmd buffer is not
released. Add free memory to processing error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
UM: cpuinfo: Fix a warning for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
When CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is selected,
cpu_max_bits_warn() generates a runtime warning similar as below while
we show /proc/cpuinfo. Fix this by using nr_cpu_ids (the runtime limit)
instead of NR_CPUS to iterate CPUs.
[ 3.052463] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.059679] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at include/linux/cpumask.h:108 show_cpuinfo+0x5e8/0x5f0
[ 3.070072] Modules linked in: efivarfs autofs4
[ 3.076257] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.19-rc5+ #1052
[ 3.099465] Stack : 9000000100157b08 9000000000f18530 9000000000cf846c 9000000100154000
[ 3.109127] 9000000100157a50 0000000000000000 9000000100157a58 9000000000ef7430
[ 3.118774] 90000001001578e8 0000000000000040 0000000000000020 ffffffffffffffff
[ 3.128412] 0000000000aaaaaa 1ab25f00eec96a37 900000010021de80 900000000101c890
[ 3.138056] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000aaaaaa
[ 3.147711] ffff8000339dc220 0000000000000001 0000000006ab4000 0000000000000000
[ 3.157364] 900000000101c998 0000000000000004 9000000000ef7430 0000000000000000
[ 3.167012] 0000000000000009 000000000000006c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 3.176641] 9000000000d3de08 9000000001639390 90000000002086d8 00007ffff0080286
[ 3.186260] 00000000000000b0 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000000071c1c
[ 3.195868] ...
[ 3.199917] Call Trace:
[ 3.203941] [<90000000002086d8>] show_stack+0x38/0x14c
[ 3.210666] [<9000000000cf846c>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x88
[ 3.217625] [<900000000023d268>] __warn+0xd0/0x100
[ 3.223958] [<9000000000cf3c90>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x7c/0xcc
[ 3.231150] [<9000000000210220>] show_cpuinfo+0x5e8/0x5f0
[ 3.238080] [<90000000004f578c>] seq_read_iter+0x354/0x4b4
[ 3.245098] [<90000000004c2e90>] new_sync_read+0x17c/0x1c4
[ 3.252114] [<90000000004c5174>] vfs_read+0x138/0x1d0
[ 3.258694] [<90000000004c55f8>] ksys_read+0x70/0x100
[ 3.265265] [<9000000000cfde9c>] do_syscall+0x7c/0x94
[ 3.271820] [<9000000000202fe4>] handle_syscall+0xc4/0x160
[ 3.281824] ---[ end trace 8b484262b4b8c24c ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for bigalloc + inline
When converting files with inline data to extents, delayed allocations
made on a file system created with both the bigalloc and inline options
can result in invalid extent status cache content, incorrect reserved
cluster counts, kernel memory leaks, and potential kernel panics.
With bigalloc, the code that determines whether a block must be
delayed allocated searches the extent tree to see if that block maps
to a previously allocated cluster. If not, the block is delayed
allocated, and otherwise, it isn't. However, if the inline option is
also used, and if the file containing the block is marked as able to
store data inline, there isn't a valid extent tree associated with
the file. The current code in ext4_clu_mapped() calls
ext4_find_extent() to search the non-existent tree for a previously
allocated cluster anyway, which typically finds nothing, as desired.
However, a side effect of the search can be to cache invalid content
from the non-existent tree (garbage) in the extent status tree,
including bogus entries in the pending reservation tree.
To fix this, avoid searching the extent tree when allocating blocks
for bigalloc + inline files that are being converted from inline to
extent mapped.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()
Wei Chen reports a kernel bug as blew:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__i2c_transfer+0x77e/0x1930 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2109
i2c_transfer+0x1d5/0x3d0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2170
i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x393/0x660 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:297
i2cdev_ioctl+0x75d/0x9f0 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:458
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfb/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fd834a8bded
In az6027_i2c_xfer(), if msg[i].addr is 0x99,
a null-ptr-deref will caused when accessing msg[i].buf.
For msg[i].len is 0 and msg[i].buf is null.
Fix this by checking msg[i].len in az6027_i2c_xfer().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvbdev: adopts refcnt to avoid UAF
dvb_unregister_device() is known that prone to use-after-free.
That is, the cleanup from dvb_unregister_device() releases the dvb_device
even if there are pointers stored in file->private_data still refer to it.
This patch adds a reference counter into struct dvb_device and delays its
deallocation until no pointer refers to the object.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev()
After commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
move dev_set_name() after pnp_add_id() to avoid memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15