Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.42 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: adc: at91_adc: fix possible memory leak in at91_adc_allocate_trigger()
If iio_trigger_register() returns error, it should call iio_trigger_free()
to give up the reference that hold in iio_trigger_alloc(), so that it can
call iio_trig_release() to free memory when the refcount hit to 0.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case
In __unregister_kprobe_top(), if the currently unregistered probe has
post_handler but other child probes of the aggrprobe do not have
post_handler, the post_handler of the aggrprobe is cleared. If this is
a ftrace-based probe, there is a problem. In later calls to
disarm_kprobe(), we will use kprobe_ftrace_ops because post_handler is
NULL. But we're armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This triggers a WARN in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and may even cause use-after-free:
Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at kernel_clone+0x0/0x3c0 (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 137 at kernel/kprobes.c:1135 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.21+0xcf/0xe0
Modules linked in: testKprobe_007(-)
CPU: 5 PID: 137 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #18
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__disable_kprobe+0xcd/0xe0
__unregister_kprobe_top+0x12/0x150
? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30
unregister_kprobes.part.23+0x31/0xa0
unregister_kprobe+0x32/0x40
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x260
? do_user_addr_fault+0x2cd/0x6b0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[...]
For the kprobe-on-ftrace case, we keep the post_handler setting to
identify this aggrprobe armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This way we
can disarm it correctly.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix possible name leak in tcm_loop_setup_hba_bus()
If device_register() fails in tcm_loop_setup_hba_bus(), the name allocated
by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it
should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix
this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().
The 'tl_hba' will be freed in tcm_loop_release_adapter(), so it don't need
goto error label in this case.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: sdhci-pci: Fix possible memory leak caused by missing pci_dev_put()
pci_get_device() will increase the reference count for the returned
pci_dev. We need to use pci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count
before amd_probe() returns. There is no problem for the 'smbus_dev ==
NULL' branch because pci_dev_put() can also handle the NULL input
parameter case.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm ioctl: fix misbehavior if list_versions races with module loading
__list_versions will first estimate the required space using the
"dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_needed, &needed)" call and then will
fill the space using the "dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_info,
&iter_info)" call. Each of these calls locks the targets using the
"down_read(&_lock)" and "up_read(&_lock)" calls, however between the first
and second "dm_target_iterate" there is no lock held and the target
modules can be loaded at this point, so the second "dm_target_iterate"
call may need more space than what was the first "dm_target_iterate"
returned.
The code tries to handle this overflow (see the beginning of
list_version_get_info), however this handling is incorrect.
The code sets "param->data_size = param->data_start + needed" and
"iter_info.end = (char *)vers+len" - "needed" is the size returned by the
first dm_target_iterate call; "len" is the size of the buffer allocated by
userspace.
"len" may be greater than "needed"; in this case, the code will write up
to "len" bytes into the buffer, however param->data_size is set to
"needed", so it may write data past the param->data_size value. The ioctl
interface copies only up to param->data_size into userspace, thus part of
the result will be truncated.
Fix this bug by setting "iter_info.end = (char *)vers + needed;" - this
guarantees that the second "dm_target_iterate" call will write only up to
the "needed" buffer and it will exit with "DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG" if it
overflows the "needed" space - in this case, userspace will allocate a
larger buffer and retry.
Note that there is also a bug in list_version_get_needed - we need to add
"strlen(tt->name) + 1" to the needed size, not "strlen(tt->name)".
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Drop snd_BUG_ON() from snd_usbmidi_output_open()
snd_usbmidi_output_open() has a check of the NULL port with
snd_BUG_ON(). snd_BUG_ON() was used as this shouldn't have happened,
but in reality, the NULL port may be seen when the device gives an
invalid endpoint setup at the descriptor, hence the driver skips the
allocation. That is, the check itself is valid and snd_BUG_ON()
should be dropped from there. Otherwise it's confusing as if it were
a real bug, as recently syzbot stumbled on it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: cdg: allow tcp_cdg_release() to be called multiple times
Apparently, mptcp is able to call tcp_disconnect() on an already
disconnected flow. This is generally fine, unless current congestion
control is CDG, because it might trigger a double-free [1]
Instead of fixing MPTCP, and future bugs, we can make tcp_disconnect()
more resilient.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: double-free in slab_free mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: double-free in kfree+0xe2/0x580 mm/slub.c:4567
CPU: 0 PID: 3645 Comm: kworker/0:7 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
Workqueue: events mptcp_worker
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]
print_report.cold+0x2ba/0x719 mm/kasan/report.c:433
kasan_report_invalid_free+0x81/0x190 mm/kasan/report.c:462
____kasan_slab_free+0x18b/0x1c0 mm/kasan/common.c:356
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:200 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1759 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x1c0 mm/slub.c:1785
slab_free mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
kfree+0xe2/0x580 mm/slub.c:4567
tcp_disconnect+0x980/0x1e20 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3145
__mptcp_close_ssk+0x5ca/0x7e0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2327
mptcp_do_fastclose net/mptcp/protocol.c:2592 [inline]
mptcp_worker+0x78c/0xff0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2627
process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>
Allocated by task 3671:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:475 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xa9/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:525
kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:640 [inline]
kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:671 [inline]
tcp_cdg_init+0x10d/0x170 net/ipv4/tcp_cdg.c:380
tcp_init_congestion_control+0xab/0x550 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:193
tcp_reinit_congestion_control net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:217 [inline]
tcp_set_congestion_control+0x96c/0xaa0 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:391
do_tcp_setsockopt+0x505/0x2320 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3513
tcp_setsockopt+0xd4/0x100 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3801
mptcp_setsockopt+0x35f/0x2570 net/mptcp/sockopt.c:844
__sys_setsockopt+0x2d6/0x690 net/socket.c:2252
__do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2263 [inline]
__se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2260 [inline]
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2260
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Freed by task 16:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:45
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:367 [inline]
____kasan_slab_free+0x166/0x1c0 mm/kasan/common.c:329
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:200 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1759 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x1c0 mm/slub.c:1785
slab_free mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
kfree+0xe2/0x580 mm/slub.c:4567
tcp_cleanup_congestion_control+0x70/0x120 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:226
tcp_v4_destroy_sock+0xdd/0x750 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2254
tcp_v6_destroy_sock+0x11/0x20 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1969
inet_csk_destroy_sock+0x196/0x440 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:1157
tcp_done+0x23b/0x340 net/ipv4/tcp.c:4649
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x40e7/0x4990 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6624
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x3fc/0x13c0 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1525
tcp_v6_rcv+0x2e8e/0x3830 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1759
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2db/0x1950 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:439
ip6_input_finish+0x14c/0x2c0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:484
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:302 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:296 [inline]
ip6_input+0x9c/0xd
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
macvlan: enforce a consistent minimal mtu
macvlan should enforce a minimal mtu of 68, even at link creation.
This patch avoids the current behavior (which could lead to crashes
in ipv6 stack if the link is brought up)
$ ip link add macvlan1 link eno1 mtu 8 type macvlan # This should fail !
$ ip link sh dev macvlan1
5: macvlan1@eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 8 qdisc noop
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 02:47:6c:24:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 67
Error: mtu less than device minimum.
$ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 68
$ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 8
Error: mtu less than device minimum.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(),
switch from __nlmsg_put to nlmsg_put(), and explain the bounds check
for dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct.
Avoids this future run-time warning:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
9p/trans_fd: always use O_NONBLOCK read/write
syzbot is reporting hung task at p9_fd_close() [1], for p9_mux_poll_stop()
from p9_conn_destroy() from p9_fd_close() is failing to interrupt already
started kernel_read() from p9_fd_read() from p9_read_work() and/or
kernel_write() from p9_fd_write() from p9_write_work() requests.
Since p9_socket_open() sets O_NONBLOCK flag, p9_mux_poll_stop() does not
need to interrupt kernel_read()/kernel_write(). However, since p9_fd_open()
does not set O_NONBLOCK flag, but pipe blocks unless signal is pending,
p9_mux_poll_stop() needs to interrupt kernel_read()/kernel_write() when
the file descriptor refers to a pipe. In other words, pipe file descriptor
needs to be handled as if socket file descriptor.
We somehow need to interrupt kernel_read()/kernel_write() on pipes.
A minimal change, which this patch is doing, is to set O_NONBLOCK flag
from p9_fd_open(), for O_NONBLOCK flag does not affect reading/writing
of regular files. But this approach changes O_NONBLOCK flag on userspace-
supplied file descriptors (which might break userspace programs), and
O_NONBLOCK flag could be changed by userspace. It would be possible to set
O_NONBLOCK flag every time p9_fd_read()/p9_fd_write() is invoked, but still
remains small race window for clearing O_NONBLOCK flag.
If we don't want to manipulate O_NONBLOCK flag, we might be able to
surround kernel_read()/kernel_write() with set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)
and recalc_sigpending(). Since p9_read_work()/p9_write_work() works are
processed by kernel threads which process global system_wq workqueue,
signals could not be delivered from remote threads when p9_mux_poll_stop()
from p9_conn_destroy() from p9_fd_close() is called. Therefore, calling
set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)/recalc_sigpending() every time would be
needed if we count on signals for making kernel_read()/kernel_write()
non-blocking.
[Dominique: add comment at Christian's suggestion]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-05-01