Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.18 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix slab-use-after-free in hdcp
The HDCP code in amdgpu_dm_hdcp.c copies pointers to amdgpu_dm_connector
objects without incrementing the kref reference counts. When using a
USB-C dock, and the dock is unplugged, the corresponding
amdgpu_dm_connector objects are freed, creating dangling pointers in the
HDCP code. When the dock is plugged back, the dangling pointers are
dereferenced, resulting in a slab-use-after-free:
[ 66.775837] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in event_property_validate+0x42f/0x6c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.776171] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888127804120 by task kworker/0:1/10
[ 66.776179] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7-00180-g54505f727a38-dirty #233
[ 66.776183] Hardware name: HP HP Pavilion Aero Laptop 13-be0xxx/8916, BIOS F.17 12/18/2024
[ 66.776186] Workqueue: events event_property_validate [amdgpu]
[ 66.776494] Call Trace:
[ 66.776496] <TASK>
[ 66.776497] dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0xa0
[ 66.776504] print_report+0x175/0x555
[ 66.776507] ? __virt_addr_valid+0x243/0x450
[ 66.776510] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x66/0x1c0
[ 66.776515] kasan_report+0xeb/0x1c0
[ 66.776518] ? event_property_validate+0x42f/0x6c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.776819] ? event_property_validate+0x42f/0x6c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.777121] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20
[ 66.777124] event_property_validate+0x42f/0x6c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.777342] ? __lock_acquire+0x6b40/0x6b40
[ 66.777347] ? enable_assr+0x250/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 66.777571] process_one_work+0x86b/0x1510
[ 66.777575] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xcf0/0xcf0
[ 66.777578] ? assign_work+0x16b/0x280
[ 66.777580] ? lock_is_held_type+0xa3/0x130
[ 66.777583] worker_thread+0x5c0/0xfa0
[ 66.777587] ? process_one_work+0x1510/0x1510
[ 66.777588] kthread+0x3a2/0x840
[ 66.777591] ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xd0/0xd0
[ 66.777594] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x4f/0x60
[ 66.777597] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x27/0x60
[ 66.777599] ? calculate_sigpending+0x77/0xa0
[ 66.777602] ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xd0/0xd0
[ 66.777605] ret_from_fork+0x40/0x90
[ 66.777607] ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xd0/0xd0
[ 66.777609] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 66.777614] </TASK>
[ 66.777643] Allocated by task 10:
[ 66.777646] kasan_save_stack+0x39/0x60
[ 66.777649] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x40
[ 66.777652] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x37/0x50
[ 66.777655] __kasan_kmalloc+0xbb/0xc0
[ 66.777658] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1c8/0x4b0
[ 66.777661] dm_dp_add_mst_connector+0xdd/0x5c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.777880] drm_dp_mst_port_add_connector+0x47e/0x770 [drm_display_helper]
[ 66.777892] drm_dp_send_link_address+0x1554/0x2bf0 [drm_display_helper]
[ 66.777901] drm_dp_check_and_send_link_address+0x187/0x1f0 [drm_display_helper]
[ 66.777909] drm_dp_mst_link_probe_work+0x2b8/0x410 [drm_display_helper]
[ 66.777917] process_one_work+0x86b/0x1510
[ 66.777919] worker_thread+0x5c0/0xfa0
[ 66.777922] kthread+0x3a2/0x840
[ 66.777925] ret_from_fork+0x40/0x90
[ 66.777927] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 66.777932] Freed by task 1713:
[ 66.777935] kasan_save_stack+0x39/0x60
[ 66.777938] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x40
[ 66.777940] kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
[ 66.777944] __kasan_slab_free+0x52/0x70
[ 66.777946] kfree+0x13f/0x4b0
[ 66.777949] dm_dp_mst_connector_destroy+0xfa/0x150 [amdgpu]
[ 66.778179] drm_connector_free+0x7d/0xb0
[ 66.778184] drm_mode_object_put.part.0+0xee/0x160
[ 66.778188] drm_mode_object_put+0x37/0x50
[ 66.778191] drm_atomic_state_default_clear+0x220/0xd60
[ 66.778194] __drm_atomic_state_free+0x16e/0x2a0
[ 66.778197] drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x15ed/0x2ba0
[ 66.778200] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x17a/0x310
[ 66.778203] drm_ioctl+0x584/0xd10
[ 66.778206] amdgpu_drm_ioctl+0xd2/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
[ 66.778375] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x139/0x1a0
[ 66.778378] x64_sys_call+0xee7/0xfb0
[ 66.778381]
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CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices
Using device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy
causes an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an
implicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided
release methods upon devices destruction.
As a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon
destruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the
drivers subsystem core.
KMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver
causes related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any
device_release method.
unreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512):
comm "insmod", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff ........`6......
backtrace (crc 114e2eed):
kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398
device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_register+0x28/0x40
__scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380
scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390
scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8
scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8
notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0
scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0
0xffff80000a3b3038
do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730
do_init_module+0x1dc/0x640
load_module+0x4b20/0x5b70
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
$ ./scripts/faddr2line ./vmlinux device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_add+0x954/0x12d0:
kmalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:901
(inlined by) kzalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:1037
(inlined by) device_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3510
(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3561
Balance device refcount by issuing a put_device() on devices found via
device_find_child().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: inftlcore: Add error check for inftl_read_oob()
In INFTL_findwriteunit(), the return value of inftl_read_oob()
need to be checked. A proper implementation can be
found in INFTL_deleteblock(). The status will be set as
SECTOR_IGNORE to break from the while-loop correctly
if the inftl_read_oob() fails.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class with netem as child qdisc
As described in Gerrard's report [1], we have a UAF case when an hfsc class
has a netem child qdisc. The crux of the issue is that hfsc is assuming
that checking for cl->qdisc->q.qlen == 0 guarantees that it hasn't inserted
the class in the vttree or eltree (which is not true for the netem
duplicate case).
This patch checks the n_active class variable to make sure that the code
won't insert the class in the vttree or eltree twice, catering for the
reentrant case.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHcdcOm+03OD2j6R0=YHKqmy=VgJ8xEOKuP6c7mSgnp-TEJJbw@mail.gmail.com/
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dw2102: Fix null-ptr-deref in dw2102_i2c_transfer()
In dw2102_i2c_transfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf
is null and msg[i].len is zero, former checks on msg[i].buf would be
passed. Malicious data finally reach dw2102_i2c_transfer. If accessing
msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null ptr deref would happen.
We add check on msg[i].len to prevent crash.
Similar commit:
commit 950e252cb469
("[media] dw2102: limit messages to buffer size")
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btsdio: fix use after free bug in btsdio_remove due to race condition
In btsdio_probe, the data->work is bound with btsdio_work. It will be
started in btsdio_send_frame.
If the btsdio_remove runs with a unfinished work, there may be a race
condition that hdev is freed but used in btsdio_work. Fix it by
canceling the work before do cleanup in btsdio_remove.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/core: Fix WARN_ON(!ctx) in __free_event() for partial init
Move the get_ctx(child_ctx) call and the child_event->ctx assignment to
occur immediately after the child event is allocated. Ensure that
child_event->ctx is non-NULL before any subsequent error path within
inherit_event calls free_event(), satisfying the assumptions of the
cleanup code.
Details:
There's no clear Fixes tag, because this bug is a side-effect of
multiple interacting commits over time (up to 15 years old), not
a single regression.
The code initially incremented refcount then assigned context
immediately after the child_event was created. Later, an early
validity check for child_event was added before the
refcount/assignment. Even later, a WARN_ON_ONCE() cleanup check was
added, assuming event->ctx is valid if the pmu_ctx is valid.
The problem is that the WARN_ON_ONCE() could trigger after the initial
check passed but before child_event->ctx was assigned, violating its
precondition. The solution is to assign child_event->ctx right after
its initial validation. This ensures the context exists for any
subsequent checks or cleanup routines, resolving the WARN_ON_ONCE().
To resolve it, defer the refcount update and child_event->ctx assignment
directly after child_event->pmu_ctx is set but before checking if the
parent event is orphaned. The cleanup routine depends on
event->pmu_ctx being non-NULL before it verifies event->ctx is
non-NULL. This also maintains the author's original intent of passing
in child_ctx to find_get_pmu_context before its refcount/assignment.
[ mingo: Expanded the changelog from another email by Gabriel Shahrouzi. ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
9p/net: fix improper handling of bogus negative read/write replies
In p9_client_write() and p9_client_read_once(), if the server
incorrectly replies with success but a negative write/read count then we
would consider written (negative) <= rsize (positive) because both
variables were signed.
Make variables unsigned to avoid this problem.
The reproducer linked below now fails with the following error instead
of a null pointer deref:
9pnet: bogus RWRITE count (4294967295 > 3)
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
um: work around sched_yield not yielding in time-travel mode
sched_yield by a userspace may not actually cause scheduling in
time-travel mode as no time has passed. In the case seen it appears to
be a badly implemented userspace spinlock in ASAN. Unfortunately, with
time-travel it causes an extreme slowdown or even deadlock depending on
the kernel configuration (CONFIG_UML_MAX_USERSPACE_ITERATIONS).
Work around it by accounting time to the process whenever it executes a
sched_yield syscall.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: aspeed: Add NULL pointer check in ast_vhub_init_dev()
The variable d->name, returned by devm_kasprintf(), could be NULL.
A pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference.
This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02
("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c").
This issue is found by our static analysis tool
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09