Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.2.7 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: xt_CT: drop pending enqueued packets on template removal
Templates refer to objects that can go away while packets are sitting in
nfqueue refer to:
- helper, this can be an issue on module removal.
- timeout policy, nfnetlink_cttimeout might remove it.
The use of templates with zone and event cache filter are safe, since
this just copies values.
Flush these enqueued packets in case the template rule gets removed.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: Add HID_CLAIMED_INPUT guards in raw_event callbacks missing them
In commit 2ff5baa9b527 ("HID: appleir: Fix potential NULL dereference at
raw event handle"), we handle the fact that raw event callbacks
can happen even for a HID device that has not been "claimed" causing a
crash if a broken device were attempted to be connected to the system.
Fix up the remaining in-tree HID drivers that forgot to add this same
check to resolve the same issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context
tracing_record_cmdline() internally uses __this_cpu_read() and
__this_cpu_write() on the per-CPU variable trace_cmdline_save, and
trace_save_cmdline() explicitly asserts preemption is disabled via
lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled(). These operations are only safe
when preemption is off, as they were designed to be called from the
scheduler context (probe_wakeup_sched_switch() / probe_wakeup()).
__blk_add_trace() was calling tracing_record_cmdline(current) early in
the blk_tracer path, before ring buffer reservation, from process
context where preemption is fully enabled. This triggers the following
using blktests/blktrace/002:
blktrace/002 (blktrace ftrace corruption with sysfs trace) [failed]
runtime 0.367s ... 0.437s
something found in dmesg:
[ 81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
[ 81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
[ 81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
[ 81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G N 7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
[ 81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
[ 81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 81.362881] Call Trace:
[ 81.362884] <TASK>
[ 81.362886] dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
...
(See '/mnt/sda/blktests/results/nodev/blktrace/002.dmesg' for the entire message)
[ 81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
[ 81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
[ 81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
[ 81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G N 7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
[ 81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
[ 81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 81.362881] Call Trace:
[ 81.362884] <TASK>
[ 81.362886] dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
[ 81.362895] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
[ 81.362902] tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362923] __blk_add_trace+0x307/0x5d0
[ 81.362934] ? lock_acquire+0xe0/0x300
[ 81.362940] ? iov_iter_extract_pages+0x101/0xa30
[ 81.362959] blk_add_trace_bio+0x106/0x1e0
[ 81.362968] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x24b/0x3a0
[ 81.362979] ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x58/0x260
[ 81.362988] submit_bio_wait+0x56/0x90
[ 81.363009] __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x16c/0x250
[ 81.363026] ? __pfx_submit_bio_wait_endio+0x10/0x10
[ 81.363038] ? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x73/0xa0
[ 81.363051] blkdev_read_iter+0xc1/0x140
[ 81.363059] vfs_read+0x20b/0x330
[ 81.363083] ksys_read+0x67/0xe0
[ 81.363090] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0xf00
[ 81.363102] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 81.363106] RIP: 0033:0x7f281906029d
[ 81.363111] Code: 31 c0 e9 c6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 66 63 0a 00 e8 59 ff 01 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 80 3d 41 33 0e 00 00 74 17 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5b c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec
[ 81.363113] RSP: 002b:00007ffca127dd48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
[ 81.363120] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f281906029d
[ 81.363122] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000559f8bfae000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 81.363123] RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000002863a10a81 R09: 00007f281915f000
[ 81.363124] R10: 00007f2818f77b60 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000559f8bfae000
[ 81.363126] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000000a
[ 81.363142] </TASK>
The same BUG fires from blk_add_trace_plug(), blk_add_trace_unplug(),
and blk_add_trace_rq() paths as well.
The purpose of tracin
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: radiotap: reject radiotap with unknown bits
The radiotap parser is currently only used with the radiotap
namespace (not with vendor namespaces), but if the undefined
field 18 is used, the alignment/size is unknown as well. In
this case, iterator->_next_ns_data isn't initialized (it's
only set for skipping vendor namespaces), and syzbot points
out that we later compare against this uninitialized value.
Fix this by moving the rejection of unknown radiotap fields
down to after the in-namespace lookup, so it will really use
iterator->_next_ns_data only for vendor namespaces, even in
case undefined fields are present.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: rawsock: cancel tx_work before socket teardown
In rawsock_release(), cancel any pending tx_work and purge the write
queue before orphaning the socket. rawsock_tx_work runs on the system
workqueue and calls nfc_data_exchange which dereferences the NCI
device. Without synchronization, tx_work can race with socket and
device teardown when a process is killed (e.g. by SIGKILL), leading
to use-after-free or leaked references.
Set SEND_SHUTDOWN first so that if tx_work is already running it will
see the flag and skip transmitting, then use cancel_work_sync to wait
for any in-progress execution to finish, and finally purge any
remaining queued skbs.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: kalmia: validate USB endpoints
The kalmia driver should validate that the device it is probing has the
proper number and types of USB endpoints it is expecting before it binds
to it. If a malicious device were to not have the same urbs the driver
will crash later on when it blindly accesses these endpoints.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drbd: fix "LOGIC BUG" in drbd_al_begin_io_nonblock()
Even though we check that we "should" be able to do lc_get_cumulative()
while holding the device->al_lock spinlock, it may still fail,
if some other code path decided to do lc_try_lock() with bad timing.
If that happened, we logged "LOGIC BUG for enr=...",
but still did not return an error.
The rest of the code now assumed that this request has references
for the relevant activity log extents.
The implcations are that during an active resync, mutual exclusivity of
resync versus application IO is not guaranteed. And a potential crash
at this point may not realizs that these extents could have been target
of in-flight IO and would need to be resynced just in case.
Also, once the request completes, it will give up activity log references it
does not even hold, which will trigger a BUG_ON(refcnt == 0) in lc_put().
Fix:
Do not crash the kernel for a condition that is harmless during normal
operation: also catch "e->refcnt == 0", not only "e == NULL"
when being noisy about "al_complete_io() called on inactive extent %u\n".
And do not try to be smart and "guess" whether something will work, then
be surprised when it does not.
Deal with the fact that it may or may not work. If it does not, remember a
possible "partially in activity log" state (only possible for requests that
cross extent boundaries), and return an error code from
drbd_al_begin_io_nonblock().
A latter call for the same request will then resume from where we left off.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: mcp251x: fix deadlock in error path of mcp251x_open
The mcp251x_open() function call free_irq() in its error path with the
mpc_lock mutex held. But if an interrupt already occurred the
interrupt handler will be waiting for the mpc_lock and free_irq() will
deadlock waiting for the handler to finish.
This issue is similar to the one fixed in commit 7dd9c26bd6cf ("can:
mcp251x: fix deadlock if an interrupt occurs during mcp251x_open") but
for the error path.
To solve this issue move the call to free_irq() after the lock is
released. Setting `priv->force_quit = 1` beforehand ensure that the IRQ
handler will exit right away once it acquired the lock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late().
There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for
memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with
memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area().
More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y
efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the
memory map is complete.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of
RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM.
If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is
still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because
memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips
uninitialized pages.
Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because
__free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might
end up in uninitialized part of the memory map.
Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic
because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates
efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in
boot when there is concurrency.
More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services
memory.
Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services()
collects ranges that should be freed into an array then
efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: cancel rfkill_block work in wiphy_unregister()
There is a use-after-free error in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces found
by syzkaller:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888112a78d98 by task kworker/0:5/5326
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5326 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc2 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events cfg80211_rfkill_block_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0
print_report+0xcd/0x630
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110
cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220
cfg80211_rfkill_block_work+0x1e/0x30
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10
kthread+0x3c5/0x780
ret_from_fork+0x56d/0x700
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
The problem arises due to the rfkill_block work is not cancelled when wiphy
is being unregistered. In order to fix the issue cancel the corresponding
work in wiphy_unregister().
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25