Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.172 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netlabel: Fix NULL pointer exception caused by CALIPSO on IPv4 sockets
When calling netlbl_conn_setattr(), addr->sa_family is used
to determine the function behavior. If sk is an IPv4 socket,
but the connect function is called with an IPv6 address,
the function calipso_sock_setattr() is triggered.
Inside this function, the following code is executed:
sk_fullsock(__sk) ? inet_sk(__sk)->pinet6 : NULL;
Since sk is an IPv4 socket, pinet6 is NULL, leading to a
null pointer dereference.
This patch fixes the issue by checking if inet6_sk(sk)
returns a NULL pointer before accessing pinet6.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ibmveth: make veth_pool_store stop hanging
v2:
- Created a single error handling unlock and exit in veth_pool_store
- Greatly expanded commit message with previous explanatory-only text
Summary: Use rtnl_mutex to synchronize veth_pool_store with itself,
ibmveth_close and ibmveth_open, preventing multiple calls in a row to
napi_disable.
Background: Two (or more) threads could call veth_pool_store through
writing to /sys/devices/vio/30000002/pool*/*. You can do this easily
with a little shell script. This causes a hang.
I configured LOCKDEP, compiled ibmveth.c with DEBUG, and built a new
kernel. I ran this test again and saw:
Setting pool0/active to 0
Setting pool1/active to 1
[ 73.911067][ T4365] ibmveth 30000002 eth0: close starting
Setting pool1/active to 1
Setting pool1/active to 0
[ 73.911367][ T4366] ibmveth 30000002 eth0: close starting
[ 73.916056][ T4365] ibmveth 30000002 eth0: close complete
[ 73.916064][ T4365] ibmveth 30000002 eth0: open starting
[ 110.808564][ T712] systemd-journald[712]: Sent WATCHDOG=1 notification.
[ 230.808495][ T712] systemd-journald[712]: Sent WATCHDOG=1 notification.
[ 243.683786][ T123] INFO: task stress.sh:4365 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[ 243.683827][ T123] Not tainted 6.14.0-01103-g2df0c02dab82-dirty #8
[ 243.683833][ T123] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 243.683838][ T123] task:stress.sh state:D stack:28096 pid:4365 tgid:4365 ppid:4364 task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00042000
[ 243.683852][ T123] Call Trace:
[ 243.683857][ T123] [c00000000c38f690] [0000000000000001] 0x1 (unreliable)
[ 243.683868][ T123] [c00000000c38f840] [c00000000001f908] __switch_to+0x318/0x4e0
[ 243.683878][ T123] [c00000000c38f8a0] [c000000001549a70] __schedule+0x500/0x12a0
[ 243.683888][ T123] [c00000000c38f9a0] [c00000000154a878] schedule+0x68/0x210
[ 243.683896][ T123] [c00000000c38f9d0] [c00000000154ac80] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x30/0x50
[ 243.683904][ T123] [c00000000c38fa00] [c00000000154dbb0] __mutex_lock+0x730/0x10f0
[ 243.683913][ T123] [c00000000c38fb10] [c000000001154d40] napi_enable+0x30/0x60
[ 243.683921][ T123] [c00000000c38fb40] [c000000000f4ae94] ibmveth_open+0x68/0x5dc
[ 243.683928][ T123] [c00000000c38fbe0] [c000000000f4aa20] veth_pool_store+0x220/0x270
[ 243.683936][ T123] [c00000000c38fc70] [c000000000826278] sysfs_kf_write+0x68/0xb0
[ 243.683944][ T123] [c00000000c38fcb0] [c0000000008240b8] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x198/0x2d0
[ 243.683951][ T123] [c00000000c38fd00] [c00000000071b9ac] vfs_write+0x34c/0x650
[ 243.683958][ T123] [c00000000c38fdc0] [c00000000071bea8] ksys_write+0x88/0x150
[ 243.683966][ T123] [c00000000c38fe10] [c0000000000317f4] system_call_exception+0x124/0x340
[ 243.683973][ T123] [c00000000c38fe50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
...
[ 243.684087][ T123] Showing all locks held in the system:
[ 243.684095][ T123] 1 lock held by khungtaskd/123:
[ 243.684099][ T123] #0: c00000000278e370 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x50/0x248
[ 243.684114][ T123] 4 locks held by stress.sh/4365:
[ 243.684119][ T123] #0: c00000003a4cd3f8 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0x88/0x150
[ 243.684132][ T123] #1: c000000041aea888 (&of->mutex#2){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x154/0x2d0
[ 243.684143][ T123] #2: c0000000366fb9a8 (kn->active#64){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x160/0x2d0
[ 243.684155][ T123] #3: c000000035ff4cb8 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: napi_enable+0x30/0x60
[ 243.684166][ T123] 5 locks held by stress.sh/4366:
[ 243.684170][ T123] #0: c00000003a4cd3f8 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0x88/0x150
[ 243.
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow
struct geneve_opt uses 5 bit length for each single option, which
means every vary size option should be smaller than 128 bytes.
However, all current related Netlink policies cannot promise this
length condition and the attacker can exploit a exact 128-byte size
option to *fake* a zero length option and confuse the parsing logic,
further achieve heap out-of-bounds read.
One example crash log is like below:
[ 3.905425] ==================================================================
[ 3.905925] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.906255] Read of size 124 at addr ffff888005f291cc by task poc/177
[ 3.906646]
[ 3.906775] CPU: 0 PID: 177 Comm: poc-oob-read Not tainted 6.1.132 #1
[ 3.907131] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 3.907784] Call Trace:
[ 3.907925] <TASK>
[ 3.908048] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[ 3.908258] print_report+0x184/0x4be
[ 3.909151] kasan_report+0xc5/0x100
[ 3.909539] kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0
[ 3.909794] memcpy+0x1f/0x60
[ 3.909968] nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.910147] tunnel_key_dump+0x945/0xba0
[ 3.911536] tcf_action_dump_1+0x1c1/0x340
[ 3.912436] tcf_action_dump+0x101/0x180
[ 3.912689] tcf_exts_dump+0x164/0x1e0
[ 3.912905] fw_dump+0x18b/0x2d0
[ 3.913483] tcf_fill_node+0x2ee/0x460
[ 3.914778] tfilter_notify+0xf4/0x180
[ 3.915208] tc_new_tfilter+0xd51/0x10d0
[ 3.918615] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4a2/0x560
[ 3.919118] netlink_rcv_skb+0xcd/0x200
[ 3.919787] netlink_unicast+0x395/0x530
[ 3.921032] netlink_sendmsg+0x3d0/0x6d0
[ 3.921987] __sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xa0
[ 3.922220] __sys_sendto+0x1b7/0x240
[ 3.922682] __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x90
[ 3.922906] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x90
[ 3.923814] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[ 3.924122] RIP: 0033:0x7e83eab84407
[ 3.924331] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 faf
[ 3.925330] RSP: 002b:00007ffff505e370 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[ 3.925752] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007e83eaafa740 RCX: 00007e83eab84407
[ 3.926173] RDX: 00000000000001a8 RSI: 00007ffff505e3c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 3.926587] RBP: 00007ffff505f460 R08: 00007e83eace1000 R09: 000000000000000c
[ 3.926977] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffff505f3c0
[ 3.927367] R13: 00007ffff505f5c8 R14: 00007e83ead1b000 R15: 00005d4fbbe6dcb8
Fix these issues by enforing correct length condition in related
policies.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs
On the following path, flush_tlb_range() can be used for zapping normal
PMD entries (PMD entries that point to page tables) together with the PTE
entries in the pointed-to page table:
collapse_pte_mapped_thp
pmdp_collapse_flush
flush_tlb_range
The arm64 version of flush_tlb_range() has a comment describing that it can
be used for page table removal, and does not use any last-level
invalidation optimizations. Fix the X86 version by making it behave the
same way.
Currently, X86 only uses this information for the following two purposes,
which I think means the issue doesn't have much impact:
- In native_flush_tlb_multi() for checking if lazy TLB CPUs need to be
IPI'd to avoid issues with speculative page table walks.
- In Hyper-V TLB paravirtualization, again for lazy TLB stuff.
The patch "x86/mm: only invalidate final translations with INVLPGB" which
is currently under review (see
<https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241230175550.4046587-13-riel@surriel.com/>)
would probably be making the impact of this a lot worse.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash()
The Client send malformed smb2 negotiate request. ksmbd return error
response. Subsequently, the client can send smb2 session setup even
thought conn->preauth_info is not allocated.
This patch add KSMBD_SESS_NEED_SETUP status of connection to ignore
session setup request if smb2 negotiate phase is not complete.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: validate zero num_subauth before sub_auth is accessed
Access psid->sub_auth[psid->num_subauth - 1] without checking
if num_subauth is non-zero leads to an out-of-bounds read.
This patch adds a validation step to ensure num_subauth != 0
before sub_auth is accessed.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_sessions_deregister()
In multichannel mode, UAF issue can occur in session_deregister
when the second channel sets up a session through the connection of
the first channel. session that is freed through the global session
table can be accessed again through ->sessions of connection.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: put dl_stid if fail to queue dl_recall
Before calling nfsd4_run_cb to queue dl_recall to the callback_wq, we
increment the reference count of dl_stid.
We expect that after the corresponding work_struct is processed, the
reference count of dl_stid will be decremented through the callback
function nfsd4_cb_recall_release.
However, if the call to nfsd4_run_cb fails, the incremented reference
count of dl_stid will not be decremented correspondingly, leading to the
following nfs4_stid leak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88812067b578 (size 344):
comm "nfsd", pid 2761, jiffies 4295044002 (age 5541.241s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b b8 02 c0 e2 81 88 ff ff ....kkkk........
00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de .kkkkkkk.....N..
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc+0x4b9/0x700
nfsd4_process_open1+0x34/0x300
nfsd4_open+0x2d1/0x9d0
nfsd4_proc_compound+0x7a2/0xe30
nfsd_dispatch+0x241/0x3e0
svc_process_common+0x5d3/0xcc0
svc_process+0x2a3/0x320
nfsd+0x180/0x2e0
kthread+0x199/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
unreferenced object 0xffff8881499f4d28 (size 368):
comm "nfsd", pid 2761, jiffies 4295044005 (age 5541.239s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 4d 9f 49 81 88 ff ff ........0M.I....
30 4d 9f 49 81 88 ff ff 20 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0M.I.... .......
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc+0x4b9/0x700
nfs4_alloc_stid+0x29/0x210
alloc_init_deleg+0x92/0x2e0
nfs4_set_delegation+0x284/0xc00
nfs4_open_delegation+0x216/0x3f0
nfsd4_process_open2+0x2b3/0xee0
nfsd4_open+0x770/0x9d0
nfsd4_proc_compound+0x7a2/0xe30
nfsd_dispatch+0x241/0x3e0
svc_process_common+0x5d3/0xcc0
svc_process+0x2a3/0x320
nfsd+0x180/0x2e0
kthread+0x199/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
Fix it by checking the result of nfsd4_run_cb and call nfs4_put_stid if
fail to queue dl_recall.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register()
Currently, nfsd_proc_stat_init() ignores the return value of
svc_proc_register(). If the procfile creation fails, then the kernel
will WARN when it tries to remove the entry later.
Fix nfsd_proc_stat_init() to return the same type of pointer as
svc_proc_register(), and fix up nfsd_net_init() to check that and fail
the nfsd_net construction if it occurs.
svc_proc_register() can fail if the dentry can't be allocated, or if an
identical dentry already exists. The second case is pretty unlikely in
the nfsd_net construction codepath, so if this happens, return -ENOMEM.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: streamzap: fix race between device disconnection and urb callback
Syzkaller has reported a general protection fault at function
ir_raw_event_store_with_filter(). This crash is caused by a NULL pointer
dereference of dev->raw pointer, even though it is checked for NULL in
the same function, which means there is a race condition. It occurs due
to the incorrect order of actions in the streamzap_disconnect() function:
rc_unregister_device() is called before usb_kill_urb(). The dev->raw
pointer is freed and set to NULL in rc_unregister_device(), and only
after that usb_kill_urb() waits for in-progress requests to finish.
If rc_unregister_device() is called while streamzap_callback() handler is
not finished, this can lead to accessing freed resources. Thus
rc_unregister_device() should be called after usb_kill_urb().
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-16