Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.14.2 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails
When scpi probe fails, at any point, we need to ensure that the scpi_info
is not set and will remain NULL until the probe succeeds. If it is not
taken care, then it could result use-after-free as the value is exported
via get_scpi_ops() and could refer to a memory allocated via devm_kzalloc()
but freed when the probe fails.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null
Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver.
When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is null
(in tap.c skb->dev is set after the call to virtio_net_hdr_to_skb)
virtio_net_hdr_to_skb calls dev_parse_header_protocol which
needs skb->dev field to be valid.
The line that trigers the bug is in dev_parse_header_protocol
(dev is at offset 0x10 from skb and is stored in RAX register)
if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->parse_protocol)
22e1: mov 0x10(%rbx),%rax
22e5: mov 0x230(%rax),%rax
Setting skb->dev before the call in tap.c fixes the issue.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000230
RIP: 0010:virtio_net_hdr_to_skb.constprop.0+0x335/0x410 [tap]
Code: c0 0f 85 b7 fd ff ff eb d4 41 39 c6 77 cf 29 c6 48 89 df 44 01 f6 e8 7a 79 83 c1 48 85 c0 0f 85 d9 fd ff ff eb b7 48 8b 43 10 <48> 8b 80 30 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 55 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 4c 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005c27c38 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888298f25300 RCX: 0000000000000010
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffc90005c27cb6 RDI: ffff888298f25300
RBP: ffffc90005c27c80 R08: 00000000ffffffea R09: 00000000000007e8
R10: ffff88858ec77458 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000014 R14: ffffc90005c27e08 R15: ffffc90005c27cb6
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88858ec40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000230 CR3: 0000000281408006 CR4: 00000000003706e0
Call Trace:
tap_get_user+0x3f1/0x540 [tap]
tap_sendmsg+0x56/0x362 [tap]
? get_tx_bufs+0xc2/0x1e0 [vhost_net]
handle_tx_copy+0x114/0x670 [vhost_net]
handle_tx+0xb0/0xe0 [vhost_net]
handle_tx_kick+0x15/0x20 [vhost_net]
vhost_worker+0x7b/0xc0 [vhost]
? vhost_vring_call_reset+0x40/0x40 [vhost]
kthread+0xfa/0x120
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer()
When copy_from_user failed, the memory is freed by kvfree. however the
management struct and data blob are allocated independently, so only
kvfree(data) cause a memleak issue here. Use aa_put_loaddata(data) to
fix this issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close
xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64):
comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c....
00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............
backtrace:
[<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0
[<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0
[<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0
[<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240
[<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0
[<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30
[<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct
cifs_deferred_close.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix reference count leak in aa_pivotroot()
The aa_pivotroot() function has a reference counting bug in a specific
path. When aa_replace_current_label() returns on success, the function
forgets to decrement the reference count of “target”, which is
increased earlier by build_pivotroot(), causing a reference leak.
Fix it by decreasing the refcount of “target” in that path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check correct bounds for stream encoder instances for DCN303
[Why & How]
eng_id for DCN303 cannot be more than 1, since we have only two
instances of stream encoders.
Check the correct boundary condition for engine ID for DCN303 prevent
the potential out of bounds access.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tee: add overflow check in register_shm_helper()
With special lengths supplied by user space, register_shm_helper() has
an integer overflow when calculating the number of pages covered by a
supplied user space memory region.
This causes internal_get_user_pages_fast() a helper function of
pin_user_pages_fast() to do a NULL pointer dereference:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 173 Comm: optee_example_a Not tainted 5.19.0 #11
Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pc : internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x474/0xa80
Call trace:
internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x474/0xa80
pin_user_pages_fast+0x24/0x4c
register_shm_helper+0x194/0x330
tee_shm_register_user_buf+0x78/0x120
tee_ioctl+0xd0/0x11a0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
Fix this by adding an an explicit call to access_ok() in
tee_shm_register_user_buf() to catch an invalid user space address
early.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_net: fix memory leak inside XPD_TX with mergeable
When we call xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() to get xdpf, if it returns
NULL, we should check if xdp_page was allocated by xdp_linearize_page().
If it is newly allocated, it should be freed here alone. Just like any
other "goto err_xdp".
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: atlantic: fix aq_vec index out of range error
The final update statement of the for loop exceeds the array range, the
dereference of self->aq_vec[i] is not checked and then leads to the
index out of range error.
Also fixed this kind of coding style in other for loop.
[ 97.937604] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c:1404:48
[ 97.937607] index 8 is out of range for type 'aq_vec_s *[8]'
[ 97.937608] CPU: 38 PID: 3767 Comm: kworker/u256:18 Not tainted 5.19.0+ #2
[ 97.937610] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7865 Tower/, BIOS 1.0.0 06/12/2022
[ 97.937611] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[ 97.937616] Call Trace:
[ 97.937617] <TASK>
[ 97.937619] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63
[ 97.937624] dump_stack+0x10/0x16
[ 97.937626] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x3f
[ 97.937627] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x44/0x49
[ 97.937629] ? __scm_send+0x348/0x440
[ 97.937632] ? aq_vec_stop+0x72/0x80 [atlantic]
[ 97.937639] aq_nic_stop+0x1b6/0x1c0 [atlantic]
[ 97.937644] aq_suspend_common+0x88/0x90 [atlantic]
[ 97.937648] aq_pm_suspend_poweroff+0xe/0x20 [atlantic]
[ 97.937653] pci_pm_suspend+0x7e/0x1a0
[ 97.937655] ? pci_pm_suspend_noirq+0x2b0/0x2b0
[ 97.937657] dpm_run_callback+0x54/0x190
[ 97.937660] __device_suspend+0x14c/0x4d0
[ 97.937661] async_suspend+0x23/0x70
[ 97.937663] async_run_entry_fn+0x33/0x120
[ 97.937664] process_one_work+0x21f/0x3f0
[ 97.937666] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3c0
[ 97.937668] ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
[ 97.937669] kthread+0xf0/0x120
[ 97.937671] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 97.937672] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 97.937676] </TASK>
v2. fixed "warning: variable 'aq_vec' set but not used"
v3. simplified a for loop
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: unset reloc control if transaction commit fails in prepare_to_relocate()
In btrfs_relocate_block_group(), the rc is allocated. Then
btrfs_relocate_block_group() calls
relocate_block_group()
prepare_to_relocate()
set_reloc_control()
that assigns rc to the variable fs_info->reloc_ctl. When
prepare_to_relocate() returns, it calls
btrfs_commit_transaction()
btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups()
btrfs_alloc_path()
kmem_cache_zalloc()
which may fail for example (or other errors could happen). When the
failure occurs, btrfs_relocate_block_group() detects the error and frees
rc and doesn't set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL. After that, in
btrfs_init_reloc_root(), rc is retrieved from fs_info->reloc_ctl and
then used, which may cause a use-after-free bug.
This possible bug can be triggered by calling btrfs_ioctl_balance()
before calling btrfs_ioctl_defrag().
To fix this possible bug, in prepare_to_relocate(), check if
btrfs_commit_transaction() fails. If the failure occurs,
unset_reloc_control() is called to set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL.
The error log in our fault-injection testing is shown as follows:
[ 58.751070] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.753577] Call Trace:
...
[ 58.755800] kasan_report+0x45/0x60
[ 58.756066] btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]
[ 58.757304] record_root_in_trans+0x792/0xa10 [btrfs]
[ 58.757748] btrfs_record_root_in_trans+0x463/0x4f0 [btrfs]
[ 58.758231] start_transaction+0x896/0x2950 [btrfs]
[ 58.758661] btrfs_defrag_root+0x250/0xc00 [btrfs]
[ 58.759083] btrfs_ioctl_defrag+0x467/0xa00 [btrfs]
[ 58.759513] btrfs_ioctl+0x3c95/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.768510] Allocated by task 23683:
[ 58.768777] ____kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0
[ 58.769069] __kmalloc+0x227/0x3d0
[ 58.769325] alloc_reloc_control+0x10a/0x3d0 [btrfs]
[ 58.769755] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x7aa/0x1e20 [btrfs]
[ 58.770228] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]
[ 58.770655] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]
[ 58.771071] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]
[ 58.771472] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]
[ 58.771902] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.773337] Freed by task 23683:
...
[ 58.774815] kfree+0xda/0x2b0
[ 58.775038] free_reloc_control+0x1d6/0x220 [btrfs]
[ 58.775465] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x115c/0x1e20 [btrfs]
[ 58.775944] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]
[ 58.776369] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]
[ 58.776784] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]
[ 58.777185] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]
[ 58.777621] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-18