Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.16.17 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: gadget: gr_udc: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: base: dd: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs
As the ramfs-based tmpfs uses ramfs_init_fs_context() for the
init_fs_context method, which allocates fc->s_fs_info, use ramfs_kill_sb()
to free it and avoid a memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats when used for device
Currently, when mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats() is used for device (port_num = 0),
there is a special handling in order to use the correct counters, but,
port_num is being passed down the stack without any change. Also, some
functions assume that port_num >=1. As a result, the following oops can
occur.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff89510294f1a8
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU: 8 PID: 1382 Comm: devlink Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc4_for_upstream_base_2022_11_10_16_12 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x20
Call Trace:
<TASK>
mlx5_ib_get_native_port_mdev+0x73/0xe0 [mlx5_ib]
do_get_hw_stats.constprop.0+0x109/0x160 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats+0xad/0x180 [mlx5_ib]
ib_setup_device_attrs+0xf0/0x290 [ib_core]
ib_register_device+0x3bb/0x510 [ib_core]
? atomic_notifier_chain_register+0x67/0x80
__mlx5_ib_add+0x2b/0x80 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5r_probe+0xb8/0x150 [mlx5_ib]
? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90
auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3c/0x70
? driver_sysfs_add+0x6b/0x90
really_probe+0xcd/0x380
__driver_probe_device+0x80/0x170
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
? driver_allows_async_probing+0x60/0x60
? driver_allows_async_probing+0x60/0x60
bus_for_each_drv+0x7b/0xc0
__device_attach+0xbc/0x200
bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
device_add+0x404/0x940
? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
__auxiliary_device_add+0x43/0x60
add_adev+0x99/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_attach_device+0xc8/0x120 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_load_one_devl_locked+0xb2/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
devlink_reload+0x133/0x250
devlink_nl_cmd_reload+0x480/0x570
? devlink_nl_pre_doit+0x44/0x2b0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xc2/0x110
genl_rcv_msg+0x180/0x2b0
? devlink_nl_cmd_region_read_dumpit+0x540/0x540
? devlink_reload+0x250/0x250
? devlink_put+0x50/0x50
? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x110/0x110
netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x1f6/0x2c0
netlink_sendmsg+0x237/0x490
sock_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
__sys_sendto+0x103/0x160
? handle_mm_fault+0x10e/0x290
? do_user_addr_fault+0x1c0/0x5f0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x25/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Fix it by setting port_num to 1 in order to get device status and remove
unused variable.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPICA: Add AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to Timer
ACPICA commit 90310989a0790032f5a0140741ff09b545af4bc5
According to the ACPI specification 19.6.134, no argument is required to be passed for ASL Timer instruction. For taking care of no argument, AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag is added to ASL Timer instruction opcode.
When ASL timer instruction interpreted by ACPI interpreter, getting error. After adding AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to ASL Timer instruction opcode, issue is not observed.
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UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in acpica/dswexec.c:401:12 index -1 is out of range for type 'union acpi_operand_object *[9]'
CPU: 37 PID: 1678 Comm: cat Not tainted
6.0.0-dev-th500-6.0.y-1+bcf8c46459e407-generic-64k
HW name: NVIDIA BIOS v1.1.1-d7acbfc-dirty 12/19/2022 Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xe0/0x130
show_stack+0x20/0x60
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
ubsan_epilogue+0x10/0x50
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x80/0x90
acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1bc/0x6d8
acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x57c/0x618
acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x1e0/0x4b4
acpi_ps_execute_method+0x24c/0x2b8
acpi_ns_evaluate+0x3a8/0x4bc
acpi_evaluate_object+0x15c/0x37c
acpi_evaluate_integer+0x54/0x15c
show_power+0x8c/0x12c [acpi_power_meter]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
irqchip/gicv3: Workaround for NVIDIA erratum T241-FABRIC-4
The T241 platform suffers from the T241-FABRIC-4 erratum which causes
unexpected behavior in the GIC when multiple transactions are received
simultaneously from different sources. This hardware issue impacts
NVIDIA server platforms that use more than two T241 chips
interconnected. Each chip has support for 320 {E}SPIs.
This issue occurs when multiple packets from different GICs are
incorrectly interleaved at the target chip. The erratum text below
specifies exactly what can cause multiple transfer packets susceptible
to interleaving and GIC state corruption. GIC state corruption can
lead to a range of problems, including kernel panics, and unexpected
behavior.
>From the erratum text:
"In some cases, inter-socket AXI4 Stream packets with multiple
transfers, may be interleaved by the fabric when presented to ARM
Generic Interrupt Controller. GIC expects all transfers of a packet
to be delivered without any interleaving.
The following GICv3 commands may result in multiple transfer packets
over inter-socket AXI4 Stream interface:
- Register reads from GICD_I* and GICD_N*
- Register writes to 64-bit GICD registers other than GICD_IROUTERn*
- ITS command MOVALL
Multiple commands in GICv4+ utilize multiple transfer packets,
including VMOVP, VMOVI, VMAPP, and 64-bit register accesses."
This issue impacts system configurations with more than 2 sockets,
that require multi-transfer packets to be sent over inter-socket
AXI4 Stream interface between GIC instances on different sockets.
GICv4 cannot be supported. GICv3 SW model can only be supported
with the workaround. Single and Dual socket configurations are not
impacted by this issue and support GICv3 and GICv4."
Writing to the chip alias region of the GICD_In{E} registers except
GICD_ICENABLERn has an equivalent effect as writing to the global
distributor. The SPI interrupt deactivate path is not impacted by
the erratum.
To fix this problem, implement a workaround that ensures read accesses
to the GICD_In{E} registers are directed to the chip that owns the
SPI, and disable GICv4.x features. To simplify code changes, the
gic_configure_irq() function uses the same alias region for both read
and write operations to GICD_ICFGR.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference
In 'mwifiex_handle_uap_rx_forward()', always check the value
returned by 'skb_copy()' to avoid potential NULL pointer
dereference in 'mwifiex_uap_queue_bridged_pkt()', and drop
original skb in case of copying failure.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: ufs: core: Fix device management cmd timeout flow
In the UFS error handling flow, the host will send a device management cmd
(NOP OUT) to the device for link recovery. If this cmd times out and
clearing the doorbell fails, ufshcd_wait_for_dev_cmd() will do nothing and
return. hba->dev_cmd.complete struct is not set to NULL.
When this happens, if cmd has been completed by device, then we will call
complete() in __ufshcd_transfer_req_compl(). Because the complete struct is
allocated on the stack, the following crash will occur:
ipanic_die+0x24/0x38 [mrdump]
die+0x344/0x748
arm64_notify_die+0x44/0x104
do_debug_exception+0x104/0x1e0
el1_dbg+0x38/0x54
el1_sync_handler+0x40/0x88
el1_sync+0x8c/0x140
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x2e4/0x3c0
__ufshcd_transfer_req_compl+0x3b0/0x1164
ufshcd_trc_handler+0x15c/0x308
ufshcd_host_reset_and_restore+0x54/0x260
ufshcd_reset_and_restore+0x28c/0x57c
ufshcd_err_handler+0xeb8/0x1b6c
process_one_work+0x288/0x964
worker_thread+0x4bc/0xc7c
kthread+0x15c/0x264
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path
mtk_drm_bind() can fail, in which case drm_dev_put() is called,
destroying the drm_device object. However a pointer to it was still
being held in the private object, and that pointer would be passed along
to DRM in mtk_drm_sys_prepare() if a suspend were triggered at that
point, resulting in a panic. Clean the pointer when destroying the
object in the error path to prevent this from happening.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18