Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.20 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init()
When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are memory leaked
as below:
unreferenced object 0xffff88816b0cc000 (size 2048):
comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6e 6f 6e 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 none............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<000000005b405fee>] orangefs_debugfs_init.cold+0xaf/0x17f
[<00000000e5a0085b>] 0xffffffffa02780f9
[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0
[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320
[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330
[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0
[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Use the golbal variable as the buffer rather than dynamic allocate to
slove the problem.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/meson: reorder driver deinit sequence to fix use-after-free bug
Unloading the driver triggers the following KASAN warning:
[ +0.006275] =============================================================
[ +0.000029] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xe0/0x1a0
[ +0.000026] Read of size 8 at addr ffff000020c395e0 by task rmmod/2695
[ +0.000019] CPU: 5 PID: 2695 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G C O 5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1
[ +0.000013] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT)
[ +0.000008] Call trace:
[ +0.000007] dump_backtrace+0x1ec/0x280
[ +0.000013] show_stack+0x24/0x80
[ +0.000008] dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xd4
[ +0.000011] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x80/0x520
[ +0.000011] print_report+0x128/0x260
[ +0.000007] kasan_report+0xb8/0xfc
[ +0.000008] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3c/0x50
[ +0.000010] __list_del_entry_valid+0xe0/0x1a0
[ +0.000009] drm_atomic_private_obj_fini+0x30/0x200 [drm]
[ +0.000172] drm_bridge_detach+0x94/0x260 [drm]
[ +0.000145] drm_encoder_cleanup+0xa4/0x290 [drm]
[ +0.000144] drm_mode_config_cleanup+0x118/0x740 [drm]
[ +0.000143] drm_mode_config_init_release+0x1c/0x2c [drm]
[ +0.000144] drm_managed_release+0x170/0x414 [drm]
[ +0.000142] drm_dev_put.part.0+0xc0/0x124 [drm]
[ +0.000143] drm_dev_put+0x20/0x30 [drm]
[ +0.000142] meson_drv_unbind+0x1d8/0x2ac [meson_drm]
[ +0.000028] take_down_aggregate_device+0xb0/0x160
[ +0.000016] component_del+0x18c/0x360
[ +0.000009] meson_dw_hdmi_remove+0x28/0x40 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000015] platform_remove+0x64/0xb0
[ +0.000009] device_remove+0xb8/0x154
[ +0.000009] device_release_driver_internal+0x398/0x5b0
[ +0.000009] driver_detach+0xac/0x1b0
[ +0.000009] bus_remove_driver+0x158/0x29c
[ +0.000009] driver_unregister+0x70/0xb0
[ +0.000008] platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c
[ +0.000008] meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_exit+0x1c/0x30 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000012] __do_sys_delete_module+0x288/0x400
[ +0.000011] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x5c/0x80
[ +0.000009] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[ +0.000009] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[ +0.000009] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[ +0.000012] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[ +0.000008] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
[ +0.000018] Allocated by task 0:
[ +0.000007] (stack is not available)
[ +0.000011] Freed by task 2695:
[ +0.000008] kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[ +0.000011] kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40
[ +0.000008] kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x50
[ +0.000009] ____kasan_slab_free+0x128/0x1d4
[ +0.000008] __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24
[ +0.000007] slab_free_freelist_hook+0x108/0x230
[ +0.000011] kfree+0x110/0x35c
[ +0.000008] release_nodes+0xf0/0x16c
[ +0.000009] devres_release_group+0x180/0x270
[ +0.000008] component_unbind+0x128/0x1e0
[ +0.000010] component_unbind_all+0x1b8/0x264
[ +0.000009] meson_drv_unbind+0x1a0/0x2ac [meson_drm]
[ +0.000025] take_down_aggregate_device+0xb0/0x160
[ +0.000009] component_del+0x18c/0x360
[ +0.000009] meson_dw_hdmi_remove+0x28/0x40 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000012] platform_remove+0x64/0xb0
[ +0.000008] device_remove+0xb8/0x154
[ +0.000009] device_release_driver_internal+0x398/0x5b0
[ +0.000009] driver_detach+0xac/0x1b0
[ +0.000009] bus_remove_driver+0x158/0x29c
[ +0.000008] driver_unregister+0x70/0xb0
[ +0.000008] platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c
[ +0.000008] meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_exit+0x1c/0x30 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000011] __do_sys_delete_module+0x288/0x400
[ +0.000010] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x5c/0x80
[ +0.000008] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[ +0.000008] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[ +0.000008] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[ +0.000009] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[ +0.000009] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
[ +0.000014] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff000020c39000
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl
When enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the
transaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we
created and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try
to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call
to qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the
quota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this
can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.
We have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at
btrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the
quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.
So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any
other error.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: fix a crash in mempool_free
There's a crash in mempool_free when running the lvm test
shell/lvchange-rebuild-raid.sh.
The reason for the crash is this:
* super_written calls atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->pending_writes) and
wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait). Then it calls rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev)
and bio_put(bio).
* so, the process that waited on sb_wait and that is woken up is racing
with bio_put(bio).
* if the process wins the race, it calls bioset_exit before bio_put(bio)
is executed.
* bio_put(bio) attempts to free a bio into a destroyed bio set - causing
a crash in mempool_free.
We fix this bug by moving bio_put before atomic_dec_and_test.
We also move rdev_dec_pending before atomic_dec_and_test as suggested by
Neil Brown.
The function md_end_flush has a similar bug - we must call bio_put before
we decrement the number of in-progress bios.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 11557f0067 P4D 11557f0067 PUD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 73 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: kdelayd flush_expired_bios [dm_delay]
RIP: 0010:mempool_free+0x47/0x80
Code: 48 89 ef 5b 5d ff e0 f3 c3 48 89 f7 e8 32 45 3f 00 48 63 53 08 48 89 c6 3b 53 04 7d 2d 48 8b 43 10 8d 4a 01 48 89 df 89 4b 08 <48> 89 2c d0 e8 b0 45 3f 00 48 8d 7b 30 5b 5d 31 c9 ba 01 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffff88910036bda8 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8891037b65d8 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: ffff8891037b65d8
RBP: ffff8891447ba240 R08: 0000000000012908 R09: 00000000003d0900
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000173544 R12: ffff889101a14000
R13: ffff8891562ac300 R14: ffff889102b41440 R15: ffffe8ffffa00d05
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88942fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000001102e99000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
clone_endio+0xf4/0x1c0 [dm_mod]
clone_endio+0xf4/0x1c0 [dm_mod]
__submit_bio+0x76/0x120
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0xb6/0x2a0
flush_expired_bios+0x28/0x2f [dm_delay]
process_one_work+0x1b4/0x300
worker_thread+0x45/0x3e0
? rescuer_thread+0x380/0x380
kthread+0xc2/0x100
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in: brd dm_delay dm_raid dm_mod af_packet uvesafb cfbfillrect cfbimgblt cn cfbcopyarea fb font fbdev tun autofs4 binfmt_misc configfs ipv6 virtio_rng virtio_balloon rng_core virtio_net pcspkr net_failover failover qemu_fw_cfg button mousedev raid10 raid456 libcrc32c async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 md_mod sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft crc64 virtio_scsi scsi_mod evdev psmouse bsg scsi_common [last unloaded: brd]
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix race issue between cpu buffer write and swap
Warning happened in rb_end_commit() at code:
if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing)))
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3142
rb_commit+0x402/0x4a0
Call Trace:
ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x42/0x250
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x250
trace_event_buffer_commit+0xe5/0x440
trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x11c/0x150
trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x23c/0x2c0
__traceiter_sched_switch+0x59/0x80
__schedule+0x72b/0x1580
schedule+0x92/0x120
worker_thread+0xa0/0x6f0
It is because the race between writing event into cpu buffer and swapping
cpu buffer through file per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot:
Write on CPU 0 Swap buffer by per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot on CPU 1
-------- --------
tracing_snapshot_write()
[...]
ring_buffer_lock_reserve()
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // 1. Suppose find 'cpu_buffer_a';
[...]
rb_reserve_next_event()
[...]
ring_buffer_swap_cpu()
if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_a->committing))
goto out_dec;
if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_b->committing))
goto out_dec;
buffer_a->buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_b;
buffer_b->buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_a;
// 2. cpu_buffer has swapped here.
rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer->buffer)
!= buffer)) { // 3. This check passed due to 'cpu_buffer->buffer'
[...] // has not changed here.
return NULL;
}
cpu_buffer_b->buffer = buffer_a;
cpu_buffer_a->buffer = buffer_b;
[...]
// 4. Reserve event from 'cpu_buffer_a'.
ring_buffer_unlock_commit()
[...]
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // 5. Now find 'cpu_buffer_b' !!!
rb_commit(cpu_buffer)
rb_end_commit() // 6. WARN for the wrong 'committing' state !!!
Based on above analysis, we can easily reproduce by following testcase:
``` bash
#!/bin/bash
dmesg -n 7
sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1
TR=/sys/kernel/tracing
echo 7 > ${TR}/buffer_size_kb
echo "sched:sched_switch" > ${TR}/set_event
while [ true ]; do
echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
done &
while [ true ]; do
echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
done &
while [ true ]; do
echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
done &
```
To fix it, IIUC, we can use smp_call_function_single() to do the swap on
the target cpu where the buffer is located, so that above race would be
avoided.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: 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
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ip6mr: Fix skb_under_panic in ip6mr_cache_report()
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff88771f69 len:56 put:-4
head:ffff88805f86a800 data:ffff887f5f86a850 tail:0x88 end:0x2c0 dev:pim6reg
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:192!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 2 PID: 22968 Comm: kworker/2:11 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00044-g0a8db05b571a #236
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x152/0x1d0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
skb_push+0xc4/0xe0
ip6mr_cache_report+0xd69/0x19b0
reg_vif_xmit+0x406/0x690
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x17e/0x6e0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2d6a/0x3d20
vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit+0x3ab/0x5c0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x17e/0x6e0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2d6a/0x3d20
neigh_connected_output+0x3ed/0x570
ip6_finish_output2+0x5b5/0x1950
ip6_finish_output+0x693/0x11c0
ip6_output+0x24b/0x880
NF_HOOK.constprop.0+0xfd/0x530
ndisc_send_skb+0x9db/0x1400
ndisc_send_rs+0x12a/0x6c0
addrconf_dad_completed+0x3c9/0xea0
addrconf_dad_work+0x849/0x1420
process_one_work+0xa22/0x16e0
worker_thread+0x679/0x10c0
ret_from_fork+0x28/0x60
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
When setup a vlan device on dev pim6reg, DAD ns packet may sent on reg_vif_xmit().
reg_vif_xmit()
ip6mr_cache_report()
skb_push(skb, -skb_network_offset(pkt));//skb_network_offset(pkt) is 4
And skb_push declared as:
void *skb_push(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);
skb->data -= len;
//0xffff88805f86a84c - 0xfffffffc = 0xffff887f5f86a850
skb->data is set to 0xffff887f5f86a850, which is invalid mem addr, lead to skb_push() fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: pi433: 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. This requires saving off the root directory dentry to make
creation of individual device subdirectories easier.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid10: check slab-out-of-bounds in md_bitmap_get_counter
If we write a large number to md/bitmap_set_bits, md_bitmap_checkpage()
will return -EINVAL because 'page >= bitmap->pages', but the return value
was not checked immediately in md_bitmap_get_counter() in order to set
*blocks value and slab-out-of-bounds occurs.
Move check of 'page >= bitmap->pages' to md_bitmap_get_counter() and
return directly if true.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev().
With some IPv6 Ext Hdr (RPL, SRv6, etc.), we can send a packet that
has the link-local address as src and dst IP and will be forwarded to
an external IP in the IPv6 Ext Hdr.
For example, the script below generates a packet whose src IP is the
link-local address and dst is updated to 11::.
# for f in $(find /proc/sys/net/ -name *seg6_enabled*); do echo 1 > $f; done
# python3
>>> from socket import *
>>> from scapy.all import *
>>>
>>> SRC_ADDR = DST_ADDR = "fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456"
>>>
>>> pkt = IPv6(src=SRC_ADDR, dst=DST_ADDR)
>>> pkt /= IPv6ExtHdrSegmentRouting(type=4, addresses=["11::", "22::"], segleft=1)
>>>
>>> sk = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW)
>>> sk.sendto(bytes(pkt), (DST_ADDR, 0))
For such a packet, we call ip6_route_input() to look up a route for the
next destination in these three functions depending on the header type.
* ipv6_rthdr_rcv()
* ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv()
* ipv6_srh_rcv()
If no route is found, ip6_null_entry is set to skb, and the following
dst_input(skb) calls ip6_pkt_drop().
Finally, in icmp6_dev(), we dereference skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev->dev
as the input device is the loopback interface. Then, we have to check if
skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev is NULL or not to avoid NULL pointer deref
for ip6_null_entry.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 157 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.4.0-11996-gb121d614371c #35
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:icmp6_send (net/ipv6/icmp.c:436 net/ipv6/icmp.c:503)
Code: fe ff ff 48 c7 40 30 c0 86 5d 83 e8 c6 44 1c 00 e9 c8 fc ff ff 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe 0f 84 4a fb ff ff 48 8b 80 d0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 88 e0 00 00 00 e9 34 fb ff ff 4d 85 ed 0f 85 69 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003c70 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000000000e0
RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888006d72a18
RBP: ffffc90000003d80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffc90000003d98 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff888006d72a10
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880057fb800 R15: ffffffff835d86c0
FS: 00007f9dc72ee740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000057b2000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
ip6_pkt_drop (net/ipv6/route.c:4513)
ipv6_rthdr_rcv (net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:640 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:686)
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:437 (discriminator 5))
ip6_input_finish (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:483)
__netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:5455)
process_backlog (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/core/dev.c:5895)
__napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6460)
net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6529 net/core/dev.c:6660)
__do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:554)
do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:454 kernel/softirq.c:441)
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:381)
__dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4231)
ip6_finish_output2 (./include/net/neighbour.h:544 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:135)
rawv6_sendmsg (./include/net/dst.h:458 ./include/linux/netfilter.h:303 net/ipv6/raw.c:656 net/ipv6/raw.c:914)
sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:725 net/socket.c:748)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2134)
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2146 net/socket.c:2142 net/socket.c:2142)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
RIP: 0033:0x7f9dc751baea
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff f
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17