Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.6.8 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nfc: Fix use-after-free in local_cleanup()
Fix a use-after-free that occurs in kfree_skb() called from
local_cleanup(). This could happen when killing nfc daemon (e.g. neard)
after detaching an nfc device.
When detaching an nfc device, local_cleanup() called from
nfc_llcp_unregister_device() frees local->rx_pending and decreases
local->ref by kref_put() in nfc_llcp_local_put().
In the terminating process, nfc daemon releases all sockets and it leads
to decreasing local->ref. After the last release of local->ref,
local_cleanup() called from local_release() frees local->rx_pending
again, which leads to the bug.
Setting local->rx_pending to NULL in local_cleanup() could prevent
use-after-free when local_cleanup() is called twice.
Found by a modified version of syzkaller.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kfree_skb()
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:106)
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold (mm/kasan/report.c:306)
kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:189)
kfree_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:955)
local_cleanup (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:159)
nfc_llcp_local_put.part.0 (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:172)
nfc_llcp_local_put (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:181)
llcp_sock_destruct (net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:959)
__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2133)
sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2181)
__sk_free (net/core/sock.c:2192)
sk_free (net/core/sock.c:2203)
llcp_sock_release (net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:646)
__sock_release (net/socket.c:650)
sock_close (net/socket.c:1365)
__fput (fs/file_table.c:306)
task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:179)
ptrace_notify (kernel/signal.c:2354)
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare (kernel/entry/common.c:278)
syscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:296)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:86)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:106)
Allocated by task 4719:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:45)
__kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:325)
slab_post_alloc_hook (mm/slab.h:766)
kmem_cache_alloc_node (mm/slub.c:3497)
__alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:552)
pn533_recv_response (drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:65)
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1671)
usb_giveback_urb_bh (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1704)
tasklet_action_common.isra.0 (kernel/softirq.c:797)
__do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:571)
Freed by task 1901:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:45)
kasan_set_track (mm/kasan/common.c:52)
kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/genericdd.c:518)
__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:236)
kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:3809)
kfree_skbmem (net/core/skbuff.c:874)
kfree_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:931)
local_cleanup (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:159)
nfc_llcp_unregister_device (net/nfc/llcp_core.c:1617)
nfc_unregister_device (net/nfc/core.c:1179)
pn53x_unregister_nfc (drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c:2846)
pn533_usb_disconnect (drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:579)
usb_unbind_interface (drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458)
device_release_driver_internal (drivers/base/dd.c:1279)
bus_remove_device (drivers/base/bus.c:529)
device_del (drivers/base/core.c:3665)
usb_disable_device (drivers/usb/core/message.c:1420)
usb_disconnect (drivers/usb/core.c:2261)
hub_event (drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833)
process_one_work (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 include/linux/jump_label.h:212 include/trace/events/workqueue.h:108 kernel/workqueue.c:2281)
worker_thread (include/linux/list.h:282 kernel/workqueue.c:2423)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:319)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:301)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt: Do not read past the end of test names
Test names were being concatenated based on a offset beyond the end of
the first name, which tripped the buffer overflow detection logic:
detected buffer overflow in strnlen
[...]
Call Trace:
bnxt_ethtool_init.cold+0x18/0x18
Refactor struct hwrm_selftest_qlist_output to use an actual array,
and adjust the concatenation to use snprintf() rather than a series of
strncat() calls.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: betop: check shape of output reports
betopff_init() only checks the total sum of the report counts for each
report field to be at least 4, but hid_betopff_play() expects 4 report
fields.
A device advertising an output report with one field and 4 report counts
would pass the check but crash the kernel with a NULL pointer dereference
in hid_betopff_play().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/qcom: Do not pass llcc_driv_data as edac_device_ctl_info's pvt_info
The memory for llcc_driv_data is allocated by the LLCC driver. But when
it is passed as the private driver info to the EDAC core, it will get freed
during the qcom_edac driver release. So when the qcom_edac driver gets probed
again, it will try to use the freed data leading to the use-after-free bug.
Hence, do not pass llcc_driv_data as pvt_info but rather reference it
using the platform_data pointer in the qcom_edac driver.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'
Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at
trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have
to check it to avoid null pointer dereference.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix oops due to uncleared server->smbd_conn in reconnect
In smbd_destroy(), clear the server->smbd_conn pointer after freeing the
smbd_connection struct that it points to so that reconnection doesn't get
confused.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Make sure trace_printk() can output as soon as it can be used
Currently trace_printk() can be used as soon as early_trace_init() is
called from start_kernel(). But if a crash happens, and
"ftrace_dump_on_oops" is set on the kernel command line, all you get will
be:
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 347519us : Unknown type 6
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 353141us : Unknown type 6
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 358684us : Unknown type 6
This is because the trace_printk() event (type 6) hasn't been registered
yet. That gets done via an early_initcall(), which may be early, but not
early enough.
Instead of registering the trace_printk() event (and other ftrace events,
which are not trace events) via an early_initcall(), have them registered at
the same time that trace_printk() can be used. This way, if there is a
crash before early_initcall(), then the trace_printk()s will actually be
useful.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix potential memory leaks in session setup
Make sure to free cifs_ses::auth_key.response before allocating it as
we might end up leaking memory in reconnect or mounting.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in fib_metrics_match()
if (!type)
continue;
if (type > RTAX_MAX)
return false;
...
fi_val = fi->fib_metrics->metrics[type - 1];
@type being used as an array index, we need to prevent
cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ip_metrics_convert()
if (!type)
continue;
if (type > RTAX_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
...
metrics[type - 1] = val;
@type being used as an array index, we need to prevent
cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-27