Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.11.8 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix oops during encryption
When running xfstests against Azure the following oops occurred on an
arm64 system
Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address
ffff0001221cf000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x9600004f
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f
CM = 0, WnR = 1
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000294f3000
[ffff0001221cf000] pgd=18000001ffff8003, p4d=18000001ffff8003,
pud=18000001ff82e003, pmd=18000001ff71d003, pte=00600001221cf787
Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : __memcpy+0x40/0x230
lr : scatterwalk_copychunks+0xe0/0x200
sp : ffff800014e92de0
x29: ffff800014e92de0 x28: ffff000114f9de80 x27: 0000000000000008
x26: 0000000000000008 x25: ffff800014e92e78 x24: 0000000000000008
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000040000000000 x21: ffff000000000000
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0001037c4488 x18: 0000000000000014
x17: 235e1c0d6efa9661 x16: a435f9576b6edd6c x15: 0000000000000058
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000008 x12: ffff000114f2e590
x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: 0000040000000000 x9 : ffff8000105c3580
x8 : 2e9413b10000001a x7 : 534b4410fb86b005 x6 : 534b4410fb86b005
x5 : ffff0001221cf008 x4 : ffff0001037c4490 x3 : 0000000000000001
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : ffff0001037c4488 x0 : ffff0001221cf000
Call trace:
__memcpy+0x40/0x230
scatterwalk_map_and_copy+0x98/0x100
crypto_ccm_encrypt+0x150/0x180
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
crypt_message+0x750/0x880
smb3_init_transform_rq+0x298/0x340
smb_send_rqst.part.11+0xd8/0x180
smb_send_rqst+0x3c/0x100
compound_send_recv+0x534/0xbc0
smb2_query_info_compound+0x32c/0x440
smb2_set_ea+0x438/0x4c0
cifs_xattr_set+0x5d4/0x7c0
This is because in scatterwalk_copychunks(), we attempted to write to
a buffer (@sign) that was allocated in the stack (vmalloc area) by
crypt_message() and thus accessing its remaining 8 (x2) bytes ended up
crossing a page boundary.
To simply fix it, we could just pass @sign kmalloc'd from
crypt_message() and then we're done. Luckily, we don't seem to pass
any other vmalloc'd buffers in smb_rqst::rq_iov...
Instead, let's map the correct pages and offsets from vmalloc buffers
as well in cifs_sg_set_buf() and then avoiding such oopses.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rapidio: fix possible name leaks when rio_add_device() fails
Patch series "rapidio: fix three possible memory leaks".
This patchset fixes three name leaks in error handling.
- patch #1 fixes two name leaks while rio_add_device() fails.
- patch #2 fixes a name leak while rio_register_mport() fails.
This patch (of 2):
If rio_add_device() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name()
need be freed. It should use put_device() to give up the reference in the
error path, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and the
'rdev' can be freed in rio_release_dev().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mISDN: hfcpci: Fix warning when deleting uninitialized timer
With CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS unloading hfcpci module leads
to the following splat:
[ 250.215892] ODEBUG: assert_init not available (active state 0) object: ffffffffc01a3dc0 object type: timer_list hint: 0x0
[ 250.217520] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 233 at lib/debugobjects.c:612 debug_print_object+0x1b6/0x2c0
[ 250.218775] Modules linked in: hfcpci(-) mISDN_core
[ 250.219537] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 233 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-g6f713187ac98 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 250.220940] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 250.222377] RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x1b6/0x2c0
[ 250.223131] Code: fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 75 4f 41 56 48 8b 14 dd a0 4e 01 9f 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 20 46 01 9f e8 cb 84d
[ 250.225805] RSP: 0018:ffff888015ea7c08 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 250.226608] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: ffffffff9be93a95
[ 250.227708] RDX: 1ffff1100d945138 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88806ca289c0
[ 250.228993] RBP: ffffffff9f014a00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1002bd4f39
[ 250.230043] R10: ffff888015ea79cf R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 250.231185] R13: ffffffff9eea0520 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888015ea7cc8
[ 250.232454] FS: 00007f3208f01540(0000) GS:ffff8880caf5a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 250.233851] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 250.234856] CR2: 00007f32090a7421 CR3: 0000000004d63000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 250.236117] Call Trace:
[ 250.236599] <TASK>
[ 250.236967] ? trace_irq_enable.constprop.0+0xd4/0x130
[ 250.237920] debug_object_assert_init+0x1f6/0x310
[ 250.238762] ? __pfx_debug_object_assert_init+0x10/0x10
[ 250.239658] ? __lock_acquire+0xdea/0x1c70
[ 250.240369] __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x69/0x140
[ 250.241172] ? __pfx___try_to_del_timer_sync+0x10/0x10
[ 250.242058] ? __timer_delete_sync+0xc6/0x120
[ 250.242842] ? lock_acquire+0x30/0x80
[ 250.243474] ? __timer_delete_sync+0xc6/0x120
[ 250.244262] __timer_delete_sync+0x98/0x120
[ 250.245015] HFC_cleanup+0x10/0x20 [hfcpci]
[ 250.245704] __do_sys_delete_module+0x348/0x510
[ 250.246461] ? __pfx___do_sys_delete_module+0x10/0x10
[ 250.247338] do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x360
[ 250.247924] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Fix this by initializing hfc_tl timer with DEFINE_TIMER macro.
Also, use mod_timer instead of manual timeout update.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
atm: atmtcp: Prevent arbitrary write in atmtcp_recv_control().
syzbot reported the splat below. [0]
When atmtcp_v_open() or atmtcp_v_close() is called via connect()
or close(), atmtcp_send_control() is called to send an in-kernel
special message.
The message has ATMTCP_HDR_MAGIC in atmtcp_control.hdr.length.
Also, a pointer of struct atm_vcc is set to atmtcp_control.vcc.
The notable thing is struct atmtcp_control is uAPI but has a
space for an in-kernel pointer.
struct atmtcp_control {
struct atmtcp_hdr hdr; /* must be first */
...
atm_kptr_t vcc; /* both directions */
...
} __ATM_API_ALIGN;
typedef struct { unsigned char _[8]; } __ATM_API_ALIGN atm_kptr_t;
The special message is processed in atmtcp_recv_control() called
from atmtcp_c_send().
atmtcp_c_send() is vcc->dev->ops->send() and called from 2 paths:
1. .ndo_start_xmit() (vcc->send() == atm_send_aal0())
2. vcc_sendmsg()
The problem is sendmsg() does not validate the message length and
userspace can abuse atmtcp_recv_control() to overwrite any kptr
by atmtcp_control.
Let's add a new ->pre_send() hook to validate messages from sendmsg().
[0]:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00200000ab: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x0000000100000558-0x000000010000055f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5865 Comm: syz-executor331 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00215-gbab3ce404553 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:atmtcp_recv_control drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:93 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atmtcp_c_send+0x1da/0x950 drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:297
Code: 4d 8d 75 1a 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 15 06 00 00 41 0f b7 1e 4d 8d b7 60 05 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 13 06 00 00 66 41 89 1e 4d 8d 75 1c 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003f5f810 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 00000000200000ab RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88802a510000 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff888030a6068c
RBP: ffff88802699fb40 R08: ffff888030a606eb R09: 1ffff1100614c0dd
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff8718fc40 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888030a60680 R14: 000000010000055f R15: 00000000ffffffff
FS: 00007f8d7e9236c0(0000) GS:ffff888125c1c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000045ad50 CR3: 0000000075bde000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
vcc_sendmsg+0xa10/0xc60 net/atm/common.c:645
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x830 net/socket.c:2614
___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2668
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2700 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2705 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2703
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f8d7e96a4a9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f8d7e923198 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8d7e9f4308 RCX: 00007f8d7e96a4a9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f8d7e9f4300 R08: 65732f636f72702f R09: 65732f636f72702f
R10: 65732f636f72702f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f8d7e9c10ac
R13: 00007f8d7e9231a0 R14: 0000200000000200 R15: 0000200000000250
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier
This warning was triggered during testing on v6.16:
notifier callback ftrace_suspend_notifier_call already registered
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 86 at kernel/notifier.c:23 notifier_chain_register+0x44/0xb0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x34/0x60
register_ftrace_graph+0x330/0x410
ftrace_profile_write+0x1e9/0x340
vfs_write+0xf8/0x420
? filp_flush+0x8a/0xa0
? filp_close+0x1f/0x30
? do_dup2+0xaf/0x160
ksys_write+0x65/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
When writing to the function_profile_enabled interface, the notifier was
not unregistered after start_graph_tracing failed, causing a warning the
next time function_profile_enabled was written.
Fixed by adding unregister_pm_notifier in the exception path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rose: convert 'use' field to refcount_t
The 'use' field in struct rose_neigh is used as a reference counter but
lacks atomicity. This can lead to race conditions where a rose_neigh
structure is freed while still being referenced by other code paths.
For example, when rose_neigh->use becomes zero during an ioctl operation
via rose_rt_ioctl(), the structure may be removed while its timer is
still active, potentially causing use-after-free issues.
This patch changes the type of 'use' from unsigned short to refcount_t and
updates all code paths to use rose_neigh_hold() and rose_neigh_put() which
operate reference counts atomically.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rose: include node references in rose_neigh refcount
Current implementation maintains two separate reference counting
mechanisms: the 'count' field in struct rose_neigh tracks references from
rose_node structures, while the 'use' field (now refcount_t) tracks
references from rose_sock.
This patch merges these two reference counting systems using 'use' field
for proper reference management. Specifically, this patch adds incrementing
and decrementing of rose_neigh->use when rose_neigh->count is incremented
or decremented.
This patch also modifies rose_rt_free(), rose_rt_device_down() and
rose_clear_route() to properly release references to rose_neigh objects
before freeing a rose_node through rose_remove_node().
These changes ensure rose_neigh structures are properly freed only when
all references, including those from rose_node structures, are released.
As a result, this resolves a slab-use-after-free issue reported by Syzbot.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: asus: fix UAF via HID_CLAIMED_INPUT validation
After hid_hw_start() is called hidinput_connect() will eventually be
called to set up the device with the input layer since the
HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT connect mask is used. During hidinput_connect()
all input and output reports are processed and corresponding hid_inputs
are allocated and configured via hidinput_configure_usages(). This
process involves slot tagging report fields and configuring usages
by setting relevant bits in the capability bitmaps. However it is possible
that the capability bitmaps are not set at all leading to the subsequent
hidinput_has_been_populated() check to fail leading to the freeing of the
hid_input and the underlying input device.
This becomes problematic because a malicious HID device like a
ASUS ROG N-Key keyboard can trigger the above scenario via a
specially crafted descriptor which then leads to a user-after-free
when the name of the freed input device is written to later on after
hid_hw_start(). Below, report 93 intentionally utilises the
HID_UP_UNDEFINED Usage Page which is skipped during usage
configuration, leading to the frees.
0x05, 0x0D, // Usage Page (Digitizer)
0x09, 0x05, // Usage (Touch Pad)
0xA1, 0x01, // Collection (Application)
0x85, 0x0D, // Report ID (13)
0x06, 0x00, 0xFF, // Usage Page (Vendor Defined 0xFF00)
0x09, 0xC5, // Usage (0xC5)
0x15, 0x00, // Logical Minimum (0)
0x26, 0xFF, 0x00, // Logical Maximum (255)
0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8)
0x95, 0x04, // Report Count (4)
0xB1, 0x02, // Feature (Data,Var,Abs)
0x85, 0x5D, // Report ID (93)
0x06, 0x00, 0x00, // Usage Page (Undefined)
0x09, 0x01, // Usage (0x01)
0x15, 0x00, // Logical Minimum (0)
0x26, 0xFF, 0x00, // Logical Maximum (255)
0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8)
0x95, 0x1B, // Report Count (27)
0x81, 0x02, // Input (Data,Var,Abs)
0xC0, // End Collection
Below is the KASAN splat after triggering the UAF:
[ 21.672709] ==================================================================
[ 21.673700] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80
[ 21.673700] Write of size 8 at addr ffff88810a0ac000 by task kworker/1:2/54
[ 21.673700]
[ 21.673700] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-g9773391cf4dd-dirty #36 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 21.673700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
[ 21.673700] Call Trace:
[ 21.673700] <TASK>
[ 21.673700] dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x80
[ 21.673700] print_report+0xd1/0x660
[ 21.673700] kasan_report+0xe5/0x120
[ 21.673700] __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x1b/0x30
[ 21.673700] asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80
[ 21.673700] hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700
[ 21.673700] really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0
[ 21.673700] __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310
[ 21.673700] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220
[...]
[ 21.673700]
[ 21.673700] Allocated by task 54:
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x3b/0x50
[ 21.673700] __kasan_kmalloc+0x9c/0xa0
[ 21.673700] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x139/0x340
[ 21.673700] input_allocate_device+0x44/0x370
[ 21.673700] hidinput_connect+0xcb6/0x2630
[ 21.673700] hid_connect+0xf74/0x1d60
[ 21.673700] hid_hw_start+0x8c/0x110
[ 21.673700] asus_probe+0x5a3/0xf80
[ 21.673700] hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700
[ 21.673700] really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0
[ 21.673700] __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310
[ 21.673700] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220
[...]
[ 21.673700]
[ 21.673700] Freed by task 54:
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40
[ 21.673700] kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60
[ 21.673700] __kasan_slab_free+0x3c/0x50
[ 21.673700] kfre
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare
Observed on kernel 6.6 (present on master as well):
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x98/0xd0
Call trace:
kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190
__asan_loadN+0x1c/0x28
memcmp+0x98/0xd0
efivarfs_d_compare+0x68/0xd8
__d_lookup_rcu_op_compare+0x178/0x218
__d_lookup_rcu+0x1f8/0x228
d_alloc_parallel+0x150/0x648
lookup_open.isra.0+0x5f0/0x8d0
open_last_lookups+0x264/0x828
path_openat+0x130/0x3f8
do_filp_open+0x114/0x248
do_sys_openat2+0x340/0x3c0
__arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x1a0
If dentry->d_name.len < EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN , 'guid' can become
negative, leadings to oob. The issue can be triggered by parallel
lookups using invalid filename:
T1 T2
lookup_open
->lookup
simple_lookup
d_add
// invalid dentry is added to hash list
lookup_open
d_alloc_parallel
__d_lookup_rcu
__d_lookup_rcu_op_compare
hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu
// invalid dentry can be retrieved
->d_compare
efivarfs_d_compare
// oob
Fix it by checking 'guid' before cmp.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump
When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.
The issue occurs because:
CPU0 (ftrace_dump) CPU1 (reader)
echo z > /proc/sysrq-trigger
!trace_empty(&iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&iter) <- len = size = 0
cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&iter)
__find_next_entry
ring_buffer_empty_cpu <- all empty
return NULL
trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq)
WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size)
In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.
Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16