Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.148 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: do not write dirty data after degenerating to read-only
According to syzbot's report, mark_buffer_dirty() called from
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() outputs a warning with some patterns after
nilfs2 detects metadata corruption and degrades to read-only mode.
After such read-only degeneration, page cache data may be cleared through
nilfs_clear_dirty_page() which may also clear the uptodate flag for their
buffer heads. However, even after the degeneration, log writes are still
performed by unmount processing etc., which causes mark_buffer_dirty() to
be called for buffer heads without the "uptodate" flag and causes the
warning.
Since any writes should not be done to a read-only file system in the
first place, this fixes the warning in mark_buffer_dirty() by letting
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() abort early if in read-only mode.
This also changes the retry check of nilfs_segctor_write_out() to avoid
unnecessary log write retries if it detects -EROFS that
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() returned.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops
BPF encap ops can return different types of positive values, such like
NET_RX_DROP, NET_XMIT_CN, NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and so on, from function
skb_do_redirect and bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute. At the xmit hook, such return
values would be treated implicitly as LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE in
ip(6)_finish_output2. When this happens, skbs that have been freed would
continue to the neighbor subsystem, causing use-after-free bug and
kernel crashes.
To fix the incorrect behavior, skb_do_redirect return values can be
simply discarded, the same as tc-egress behavior. On the other hand,
bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute returns useful errors to local senders, e.g. PMTU
information. Thus convert its return values to avoid the conflict with
LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: mux: reg: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
It will cause null-ptr-deref in resource_size(), if platform_get_resource()
returns NULL, move calling resource_size() after devm_ioremap_resource() that
will check 'res' to avoid null-ptr-deref.
And use devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() to simplify code.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
skbuff: Account for tail adjustment during pull operations
Extending the tail can have some unexpected side effects if a program uses
a helper like BPF_FUNC_skb_pull_data to read partial content beyond the
head skb headlen when all the skbs in the gso frag_list are linear with no
head_frag -
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:4219!
pc : skb_segment+0xcf4/0xd2c
lr : skb_segment+0x63c/0xd2c
Call trace:
skb_segment+0xcf4/0xd2c
__udp_gso_segment+0xa4/0x544
udp4_ufo_fragment+0x184/0x1c0
inet_gso_segment+0x16c/0x3a4
skb_mac_gso_segment+0xd4/0x1b0
__skb_gso_segment+0xcc/0x12c
udp_rcv_segment+0x54/0x16c
udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x78/0x144
udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x8c/0xa4
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x490/0x68c
udp_rcv+0x20/0x30
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1b0/0x33c
ip_local_deliver+0xd8/0x1f0
ip_rcv+0x98/0x1a4
deliver_ptype_list_skb+0x98/0x1ec
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x978/0xc60
Fix this by marking these skbs as GSO_DODGY so segmentation can handle
the tail updates accordingly.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powercap: intel_rapl: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds issue
When value < time_unit, the parameter of ilog2() will be zero and
the return value is -1. u64(-1) is too large for shift exponent
and then will trigger shift-out-of-bounds:
shift exponent 18446744073709551615 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
Call Trace:
rapl_compute_time_window_core
rapl_write_data_raw
set_time_window
store_constraint_time_window_us
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy
In alloc_inode, inode_init_always() could return -ENOMEM if
security_inode_alloc() fails, which causes inode->i_private
uninitialized. Then nilfs_is_metadata_file_inode() returns
true and nilfs_free_inode() wrongly calls nilfs_mdt_destroy(),
which frees the uninitialized inode->i_private
and leads to crashes(e.g., UAF/GPF).
Fix this by moving security_inode_alloc just prior to
this_cpu_inc(nr_inodes)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dsi: fix memory corruption with too many bridges
Add the missing sanity check on the bridge counter to avoid corrupting
data beyond the fixed-sized bridge array in case there are ever more
than eight bridges.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/502668/
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: sfb: fix null pointer access issue when sfb_init() fails
When the default qdisc is sfb, if the qdisc of dev_queue fails to be
inited during mqprio_init(), sfb_reset() is invoked to clear resources.
In this case, the q->qdisc is NULL, and it will cause gpf issue.
The process is as follows:
qdisc_create_dflt()
sfb_init()
tcf_block_get() --->failed, q->qdisc is NULL
...
qdisc_put()
...
sfb_reset()
qdisc_reset(q->qdisc) --->q->qdisc is NULL
ops = qdisc->ops
The following is the Call Trace information:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
RIP: 0010:qdisc_reset+0x2b/0x6f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sfb_reset+0x37/0xd0
qdisc_reset+0xed/0x6f0
qdisc_destroy+0x82/0x4c0
qdisc_put+0x9e/0xb0
qdisc_create_dflt+0x2c3/0x4a0
mqprio_init+0xa71/0x1760
qdisc_create+0x3eb/0x1000
tc_modify_qdisc+0x408/0x1720
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x38e/0xac0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x12d/0x3a0
netlink_unicast+0x4a2/0x740
netlink_sendmsg+0x826/0xcc0
sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x100
____sys_sendmsg+0x583/0x690
___sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x160
__sys_sendmsg+0xbf/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f2164122d04
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
brcmfmac: return error when getting invalid max_flowrings from dongle
When firmware hit trap at initialization, host will read abnormal
max_flowrings number from dongle, and it will cause kernel panic when
doing iowrite to initialize dongle ring.
To detect this error at early stage, we directly return error when getting
invalid max_flowrings(>256).
CVSS Score
4.2
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()
When the driver calls cx88_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call may fail, resulting in a empty buffer and null-ptr-deref
later in buffer_queue().
The following log can reveal it:
[ 41.822762] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[ 41.824488] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
[ 41.828027] RIP: 0010:buffer_queue+0xc2/0x500
[ 41.836311] Call Trace:
[ 41.836945] __enqueue_in_driver+0x141/0x360
[ 41.837262] vb2_start_streaming+0x62/0x4a0
[ 41.838216] vb2_core_streamon+0x1da/0x2c0
[ 41.838516] __vb2_init_fileio+0x981/0xbc0
[ 41.839141] __vb2_perform_fileio+0xbf9/0x1120
[ 41.840072] vb2_fop_read+0x20e/0x400
[ 41.840346] v4l2_read+0x215/0x290
[ 41.840603] vfs_read+0x162/0x4c0
Fix this by checking the return value of cx88_risc_buffer()
[hverkuil: fix coding style issues]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17