Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.6.19 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_dsp_element_register()
Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
use put_device() to give up the reference, so that the name can be
freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount is 0.
The 'entry' is going to be freed in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(), so the
kfree() is removed. list_del() is called in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(),
so it need be initialized.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix connections leak when tlink setup failed
If the tlink setup failed, lost to put the connections, then
the module refcnt leak since the cifsd kthread not exit.
Also leak the fscache info, and for next mount with fsc, it will
print the follow errors:
CIFS: Cache volume key already in use (cifs,127.0.0.1:445,TEST)
Let's check the result of tlink setup, and do some cleanup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tdev_add()
In ata_tdev_add(), the return value of transport_add_device() is
not checked. As a result, it causes null-ptr-deref while removing
the module, because transport_remove_device() is called to remove
the device that was not added.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0
CPU: 13 PID: 13603 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc3+ #36
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : device_del+0x48/0x3a0
lr : device_del+0x44/0x3a0
Call trace:
device_del+0x48/0x3a0
attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x40
transport_remove_classdev+0x60/0x7c
attribute_container_device_trigger+0x118/0x120
transport_remove_device+0x20/0x30
ata_tdev_delete+0x24/0x50 [libata]
ata_tlink_delete+0x40/0xa0 [libata]
ata_tport_delete+0x2c/0x60 [libata]
ata_port_detach+0x148/0x1b0 [libata]
ata_pci_remove_one+0x50/0x80 [libata]
ahci_remove_one+0x4c/0x8c [ahci]
Fix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()
in ata_tdev_add(). In the error path, device_del() is called to delete
the device which was added earlier in this function, and ata_tdev_free()
is called to free ata_dev.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tlink_add()
In ata_tlink_add(), the return value of transport_add_device() is
not checked. As a result, it causes null-ptr-deref while removing
the module, because transport_remove_device() is called to remove
the device that was not added.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0
CPU: 33 PID: 13850 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc3+ #12
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : device_del+0x48/0x39c
lr : device_del+0x44/0x39c
Call trace:
device_del+0x48/0x39c
attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x40
transport_remove_classdev+0x60/0x7c
attribute_container_device_trigger+0x118/0x120
transport_remove_device+0x20/0x30
ata_tlink_delete+0x88/0xb0 [libata]
ata_tport_delete+0x2c/0x60 [libata]
ata_port_detach+0x148/0x1b0 [libata]
ata_pci_remove_one+0x50/0x80 [libata]
ahci_remove_one+0x4c/0x8c [ahci]
Fix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()
in ata_tlink_add().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tport_add()
In ata_tport_add(), the return value of transport_add_device() is
not checked. As a result, it causes null-ptr-deref while removing
the module, because transport_remove_device() is called to remove
the device that was not added.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0
CPU: 12 PID: 13605 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc3+ #8
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : device_del+0x48/0x39c
lr : device_del+0x44/0x39c
Call trace:
device_del+0x48/0x39c
attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x40
transport_remove_classdev+0x60/0x7c
attribute_container_device_trigger+0x118/0x120
transport_remove_device+0x20/0x30
ata_tport_delete+0x34/0x60 [libata]
ata_port_detach+0x148/0x1b0 [libata]
ata_pci_remove_one+0x50/0x80 [libata]
ahci_remove_one+0x4c/0x8c [ahci]
Fix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()
in ata_tport_add().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/x25: Fix skb leak in x25_lapb_receive_frame()
x25_lapb_receive_frame() using skb_copy() to get a private copy of
skb, the new skb should be freed in the undersized/fragmented skb
error handling path. Otherwise there is a memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drbd: use after free in drbd_create_device()
The drbd_destroy_connection() frees the "connection" so use the _safe()
iterator to prevent a use after free.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bridge: switchdev: Fix memory leaks when changing VLAN protocol
The bridge driver can offload VLANs to the underlying hardware either
via switchdev or the 8021q driver. When the former is used, the VLAN is
marked in the bridge driver with the 'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV'
private flag.
To avoid the memory leaks mentioned in the cited commit, the bridge
driver will try to delete a VLAN via the 8021q driver if the VLAN is not
marked with the previously mentioned flag.
When the VLAN protocol of the bridge changes, switchdev drivers are
notified via the 'SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_VLAN_PROTOCOL' attribute, but
the 8021q driver is also called to add the existing VLANs with the new
protocol and delete them with the old protocol.
In case the VLANs were offloaded via switchdev, the above behavior is
both redundant and buggy. Redundant because the VLANs are already
programmed in hardware and drivers that support VLAN protocol change
(currently only mlx5) change the protocol upon the switchdev attribute
notification. Buggy because the 8021q driver is called despite these
VLANs being marked with 'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV'. This leads to
memory leaks [1] when the VLANs are deleted.
Fix by not calling the 8021q driver for VLANs that were already
programmed via switchdev.
[1]
unreferenced object 0xffff8881f6771200 (size 256):
comm "ip", pid 446855, jiffies 4298238841 (age 55.240s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 7f 0e 83 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000012819ac>] vlan_vid_add+0x437/0x750
[<00000000f2281fad>] __br_vlan_set_proto+0x289/0x920
[<000000000632b56f>] br_changelink+0x3d6/0x13f0
[<0000000089d25f04>] __rtnl_newlink+0x8ae/0x14c0
[<00000000f6276baf>] rtnl_newlink+0x5f/0x90
[<00000000746dc902>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x336/0xa00
[<000000001c2241c0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x11d/0x340
[<0000000010588814>] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710
[<00000000e1a4cd5c>] netlink_sendmsg+0x788/0xc40
[<00000000e8992d4e>] sock_sendmsg+0xb0/0xe0
[<00000000621b8f91>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x4ff/0x6d0
[<000000000ea26996>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x12e/0x1b0
[<00000000684f7e25>] __sys_sendmsg+0xab/0x130
[<000000004538b104>] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
[<0000000091ed9678>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ena: Fix error handling in ena_init()
The ena_init() won't destroy workqueue created by
create_singlethread_workqueue() when pci_register_driver() failed.
Call destroy_workqueue() when pci_register_driver() failed to prevent the
resource leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue
sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM
sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just
skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue
lock, so race conditions still exist.
We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would
introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can
be shared by multiple KCM sockets.
So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle
skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately,
skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by
other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after
getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and
kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets,
so it is safe to get rid of this check too.
I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any
issue.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01