Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.18.37 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix double-free of tx_buf skb
If ice_tso() or ice_tx_csum() fail, the error path in
ice_xmit_frame_ring() frees the skb, but the 'first' tx_buf still points
to it and is marked as valid (ICE_TX_BUF_SKB).
'next_to_use' remains unchanged, so the potential problem will
likely fix itself when the next packet is transmitted and the tx_buf
gets overwritten. But if there is no next packet and the interface is
brought down instead, ice_clean_tx_ring() -> ice_unmap_and_free_tx_buf()
will find the tx_buf and free the skb for the second time.
The fix is to reset the tx_buf type to ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY in the error
path, so that ice_unmap_and_free_tx_buf().
Move the initialization of 'first' up, to ensure it's already valid in
case we hit the linearization error path.
The bug was spotted by AI while I had it looking for something else.
It also proposed an initial version of the patch.
I reproduced the bug and tested the fix by adding code to inject
failures, on a build with KASAN.
I looked for similar bugs in related Intel drivers and did not find any.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP.
SOCKMAP can hide inflight fd from AF_UNIX GC.
When a socket in SOCKMAP receives skb with inflight fd,
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready() looks up the mapped socket and
enqueue skb to its psock->ingress_skb.
Since neither the old nor the new GC can inspect the psock
queue, the hidden skb leaks the inflight sockets. Note that
this cannot be detected via kmemleak because inflight sockets
are linked to a global list.
In addition, SOCKMAP redirect breaks the Tarjan-based GC's
assumption that unix_edge.successor is always alive, which
is no longer true once skb is redirected, resulting in
use-after-free below. [0]
Moreover, SOCKMAP does not call scm_stat_del() properly,
so unix_show_fdinfo() could report an incorrect fd count.
sk_msg_recvmsg() does not support any SCM attributes in the
first place.
Let's drop all SCM attributes before passing skb to the
SOCKMAP layer.
[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in unix_del_edges (net/unix/garbage.c:118 net/unix/garbage.c:181 net/unix/garbage.c:251)
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888125362670 by task kworker/56:1/496
CPU: 56 UID: 0 PID: 496 Comm: kworker/56:1 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc7-00263-gb9d8b856689d #3 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events sk_psock_backlog
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
unix_del_edges (net/unix/garbage.c:118 net/unix/garbage.c:181 net/unix/garbage.c:251)
unix_destroy_fpl (net/unix/garbage.c:317)
unix_destruct_scm (./include/net/scm.h:80 ./include/net/scm.h:86 net/unix/af_unix.c:1976)
sk_psock_backlog (./include/linux/skbuff.h:?)
process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:438)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:258)
</TASK>
Allocated by task 955:
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:58 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
__kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:369)
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof (mm/slub.c:4539)
sk_prot_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2240)
sk_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2301)
unix_create1 (net/unix/af_unix.c:1099)
unix_create (net/unix/af_unix.c:1169)
__sock_create (net/socket.c:1606)
__sys_socketpair (net/socket.c:1811)
__x64_sys_socketpair (net/socket.c:1863 net/socket.c:1860 net/socket.c:1860)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Freed by task 496:
kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:58 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:587)
__kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:287)
kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:6165)
__sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2282 net/core/sock.c:2384)
sk_psock_destroy (./include/net/sock.h:?)
process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:438)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:258)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix potential NULL pointer deref in error path of ice_set_ringparam()
ice_set_ringparam nullifies tstamp_ring of temporary tx_rings, without
clearing ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME bit.
When ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME is set and the subsequent
ice_setup_tx_ring() call fails, a NULL pointer dereference could happen
in the unwinding sequence:
ice_clean_tx_ring()
-> ice_is_txtime_cfg() == true (ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME is set)
-> ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring()
-> ice_free_tstamp_ring()
-> tstamp_ring->desc (NULL deref)
Clear ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME bit to avoid the potential issue.
Note that this potential issue is found by manual code review.
Compile test only since unfortunately I don't have E830 devices.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: join hook list via splice_list_rcu() in commit phase
Publish new hooks in the list into the basechain/flowtable using
splice_list_rcu() to ensure netlink dump list traversal via rcu is safe
while concurrent ruleset update is going on.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: put folios not suitable for writeback
The batch holds references to the folios (see `filemap_get_folios`,
`folio_batch_release`), so we need to `folio_put` the folios we remove.
Tested on v6.18.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/ttm: Fix ttm_bo_shrink() infinite LRU walk on backup failure
Apply the same fix as b2ed01e7ad ("drm/ttm: Fix ttm_bo_swapout()
infinite LRU walk on swapout failure") to the ttm_bo_shrink() path.
Move del_bulk_move from before the backup to after success only,
using ttm_resource_del_bulk_move_unevictable() since the resource
is now unevictable once fully backed up.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in __ceph_x_decrypt()
In __ceph_x_decrypt(), a part of the buffer p is interpreted as a
ceph_x_encrypt_header, and the magic field of this struct is accessed.
This happens without any guarantee that the buffer is large enough to
hold this struct. The function parameter ciphertext_len represents the
length of the ciphertext to decrypt and is guaranteed to be at most the
remaining size of the allocated buffer p. However, this value is not
necessarily greater than sizeof(ceph_x_encrypt_header). E.g., a message
frame of type FRAME_TAG_AUTH_REPLY_MORE, that is just as long to hold
the ciphertext at its end with a ciphertext_len of 8 or less, can
trigger an out-of-bounds memory access when accessing hdr->magic.
This patch fixes the issue by adding a check to ensure that the
decrypted plaintext in the buffer is large enough to represent at least
the ceph_x_encrypt_header.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "net/smc: Introduce TCP ULP support"
This reverts commit d7cd421da9da2cc7b4d25b8537f66db5c8331c40.
As reported by Al Viro, the TCP ULP support for SMC is fundamentally
broken. The implementation attempts to convert an active TCP socket
into an SMC socket by modifying the underlying `struct file`, dentry,
and inode in-place, which violates core VFS invariants that assume
these structures are immutable for an open file, creating a risk of
use after free errors and general system instability.
Given the severity of this design flaw and the fact that cleaner
alternatives (e.g., LD_PRELOAD, BPF) exist for legacy application
transparency, the correct course of action is to remove this feature
entirely.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu/userq: fix access to stale wptr mapping
Use drm_exec to take both locks i.e vm root bo and
wptr_obj bo to access the mapping data properly.
This fixes the security issue of unmap the wptr_obj while
a queue creation is in progress and passing other
bo at same address.
(cherry picked from commit 1fc6c8ab45dbee096469c08c13f6099d57a52d6c)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler
While executing ->ioctl handler or ->release handler, if an interrupt
fires on the same cpu, then we can enter into a deadlock.
This patch fixes both these handlers to take spin_lock_irq{save|restore}
versions of the lock to prevent this deadlock.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-08