Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.32.42 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin
Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called
on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads
to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if
the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning
with appropiate error code.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/radeon: free iio for atombios when driver shutdown
Fix below kmemleak when unload radeon driver:
unreferenced object 0xffff9f8608ede200 (size 512):
comm "systemd-udevd", pid 326, jiffies 4294682822 (age 716.338s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 c4 aa ec aa 14 ab 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000062fadebe>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2f1/0x500
[<00000000b6883cea>] atom_parse+0x117/0x230 [radeon]
[<00000000158c23fd>] radeon_atombios_init+0xab/0x170 [radeon]
[<00000000683f672e>] si_init+0x57/0x750 [radeon]
[<00000000566cc31f>] radeon_device_init+0x559/0x9c0 [radeon]
[<0000000046efabb3>] radeon_driver_load_kms+0xc1/0x1a0 [radeon]
[<00000000b5155064>] drm_dev_register+0xdd/0x1d0
[<0000000045fec835>] radeon_pci_probe+0xbd/0x100 [radeon]
[<00000000e69ecca3>] pci_device_probe+0xe1/0x160
[<0000000019484b76>] really_probe.part.0+0xc1/0x2c0
[<000000003f2649da>] __driver_probe_device+0x96/0x130
[<00000000231c5bb1>] driver_probe_device+0x24/0xf0
[<0000000000a42377>] __driver_attach+0x77/0x190
[<00000000d7574da6>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7f/0xd0
[<00000000633166d2>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x30
[<00000000313b05b8>] bus_add_driver+0x12c/0x1e0
iio was allocated in atom_index_iio() called by atom_parse(),
but it doesn't got released when the dirver is shutdown.
Fix this kmemleak by free it in radeon_atombios_fini().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: remove a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_release_group_pa()
If a malicious fuzzer overwrites the ext4 superblock while it is
mounted such that the s_first_data_block is set to a very large
number, the calculation of the block group can underflow, and trigger
a BUG_ON check. Change this to be an ext4_warning so that we don't
crash the kernel.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up
reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the
refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from
vpe_device_release().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()
If device_register() fails in snd_ac97_dev_register(), it should
call put_device() to give up reference, or the name allocated in
dev_set_name() is leaked.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev()
dev_set_name() in soundbus_add_one() allocates memory for name, it need be
freed when of_device_register() fails, call soundbus_dev_put() to give up
the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in
kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. And other resources are also
freed in i2sbus_release_dev(), so it can return 0 directly.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: libsas: Fix use-after-free bug in smp_execute_task_sg()
When executing SMP task failed, the smp_execute_task_sg() calls del_timer()
to delete "slow_task->timer". However, if the timer handler
sas_task_internal_timedout() is running, the del_timer() in
smp_execute_task_sg() will not stop it and a UAF will happen. The process
is shown below:
(thread 1) | (thread 2)
smp_execute_task_sg() | sas_task_internal_timedout()
... |
del_timer() |
... | ...
sas_free_task(task) |
kfree(task->slow_task) //FREE|
| task->slow_task->... //USE
Fix by calling del_timer_sync() in smp_execute_task_sg(), which makes sure
the timer handler have finished before the "task->slow_task" is
deallocated.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
If get_num_sdma_queues or get_num_xgmi_sdma_queues is 0, we end up
doing a shift operation where the number of bits shifted equals
number of bits in the operand. This behaviour is undefined.
Set num_sdma_queues or num_xgmi_sdma_queues to ULLONG_MAX, if the
count is >= number of bits in the operand.
Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1472
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phylink: add lock for serializing concurrent pl->phydev writes with resolver
Currently phylink_resolve() protects itself against concurrent
phylink_bringup_phy() or phylink_disconnect_phy() calls which modify
pl->phydev by relying on pl->state_mutex.
The problem is that in phylink_resolve(), pl->state_mutex is in a lock
inversion state with pl->phydev->lock. So pl->phydev->lock needs to be
acquired prior to pl->state_mutex. But that requires dereferencing
pl->phydev in the first place, and without pl->state_mutex, that is
racy.
Hence the reason for the extra lock. Currently it is redundant, but it
will serve a functional purpose once mutex_lock(&phy->lock) will be
moved outside of the mutex_lock(&pl->state_mutex) section.
Another alternative considered would have been to let phylink_resolve()
acquire the rtnl_mutex, which is also held when phylink_bringup_phy()
and phylink_disconnect_phy() are called. But since phylink_disconnect_phy()
runs under rtnl_lock(), it would deadlock with phylink_resolve() when
calling flush_work(&pl->resolve). Additionally, it would have been
undesirable because it would have unnecessarily blocked many other call
paths as well in the entire kernel, so the smaller-scoped lock was
preferred.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err()
object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as
the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid,
attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does
not point to a valid object.
One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks()
determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a
freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code
should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the
process.
In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for
the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01