Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.301 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired()
When set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable
'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller
than jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer()
again, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup
issue.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none)
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0
br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70
__br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0
br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510
br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0
call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0
__run_timers+0x619/0x950
run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220
handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560
__irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90
</IRQ>
This issue can be reproduced with:
ip link add br0 type bridge
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier
echo 0xffffffffffffffff >
/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval
ip link set dev br0 up
The multicast_startup_query_interval can also cause this issue. Similar to
the commit 99b40610956a ("net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce query
interval minimum"), add check for the query interval maximum to fix this
issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: gso: Forbid IPv6 TSO with extensions on devices with only IPV6_CSUM
When performing Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) on an IPv6 packet that
contains extension headers, the kernel incorrectly requests checksum offload
if the egress device only advertises NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM feature, which has
a strict contract: it supports checksum offload only for plain TCP or UDP
over IPv6 and explicitly does not support packets with extension headers.
The current GSO logic violates this contract by failing to disable the feature
for packets with extension headers, such as those used in GREoIPv6 tunnels.
This violation results in the device being asked to perform an operation
it cannot support, leading to a `skb_warn_bad_offload` warning and a collapse
of network throughput. While device TSO/USO is correctly bypassed in favor
of software GSO for these packets, the GSO stack must be explicitly told not
to request checksum offload.
Mask NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM, NETIF_F_TSO6 and NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_L4
in gso_features_check if the IPv6 header contains extension headers to compute
checksum in software.
The exception is a BIG TCP extension, which, as stated in commit
68e068cabd2c6c53 ("net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets"):
"The feature is only enabled on devices that support BIG TCP TSO.
The header is only present for PF_PACKET taps like tcpdump,
and not transmitted by physical devices."
kernel log output (truncated):
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5273 at net/core/dev.c:3535 skb_warn_bad_offload+0x81/0x140
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
skb_checksum_help+0x12a/0x1f0
validate_xmit_skb+0x1a3/0x2d0
validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4f/0x80
sch_direct_xmit+0x1a2/0x380
__dev_xmit_skb+0x242/0x670
__dev_queue_xmit+0x3fc/0x7f0
ip6_finish_output2+0x25e/0x5d0
ip6_finish_output+0x1fc/0x3f0
ip6_tnl_xmit+0x608/0xc00 [ip6_tunnel]
ip6gre_tunnel_xmit+0x1c0/0x390 [ip6_gre]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x63/0x1c0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x6d0/0x7f0
ip6_finish_output2+0x214/0x5d0
ip6_finish_output+0x1fc/0x3f0
ip6_xmit+0x2ca/0x6f0
ip6_finish_output+0x1fc/0x3f0
ip6_xmit+0x2ca/0x6f0
inet6_csk_xmit+0xeb/0x150
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x555/0xa80
tcp_write_xmit+0x32a/0xe90
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x437/0x1110
tcp_sendmsg+0x2f/0x50
...
skb linear: 00000000: e4 3d 1a 7d ec 30 e4 3d 1a 7e 5d 90 86 dd 60 0e
skb linear: 00000010: 00 0a 1b 34 3c 40 20 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
skb linear: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 12 20 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
skb linear: 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2f 00 04 01 04 01 01 00 00 00
skb linear: 00000040: 86 dd 60 0e 00 0a 1b 00 06 40 20 23 00 00 00 00
skb linear: 00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 20 23 00 00 00 00
skb linear: 00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 bf 96 14 51 13 f9
skb linear: 00000070: ae 27 a0 a8 2b e3 80 18 00 40 5b 6f 00 00 01 01
skb linear: 00000080: 08 0a 42 d4 50 d5 4b 70 f8 1a
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/hisilicon/hibmc: fix the hibmc loaded failed bug
When hibmc loaded failed, the driver use hibmc_unload to free the
resource, but the mutexes in mode.config are not init, which will
access an NULL pointer. Just change goto statement to return, because
hibnc_hw_init() doesn't need to free anything.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: add null check
[WHY]
Prevents null pointer dereferences to enhance function robustness
[HOW]
Adds early null check and return false if invalid.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if synchronous memory error not recovered
If a synchronous error is detected as a result of user-space process
triggering a 2-bit uncorrected error, the CPU will take a synchronous
error exception such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64. The
kernel will queue a memory_failure() work which poisons the related
page, unmaps the page, and then sends a SIGBUS to the process, so that
a system wide panic can be avoided.
However, no memory_failure() work will be queued when abnormal
synchronous errors occur. These errors can include situations like
invalid PA, unexpected severity, no memory failure config support,
invalid GUID section, etc. In such a case, the user-space process will
trigger SEA again. This loop can potentially exceed the platform
firmware threshold or even trigger a kernel hard lockup, leading to a
system reboot.
Fix it by performing a force kill if no memory_failure() work is queued
for synchronous errors.
[ rjw: Changelog edits ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers
Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object
alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that
as the skip hint for dump resumption.
AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack
dumper, when we do
if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use))
to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which
causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Set .migrate_folio in gfs2_{rgrp,meta}_aops
Clears up the warning added in 7ee3647243e5 ("migrate: Remove call to
->writepage") that occurs in various xfstests, causing "something found
in dmesg" failures.
[ 341.136573] gfs2_meta_aops does not implement migrate_folio
[ 341.136953] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 36 at mm/migrate.c:944 move_to_new_folio+0x2f8/0x300
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration
smaps_hugetlb_range() handles the pte without holdling ptl, and may be
concurrenct with migration, leaing to BUG_ON in pfn_swap_entry_to_page().
The race is as follows.
smaps_hugetlb_range migrate_pages
huge_ptep_get
remove_migration_ptes
folio_unlock
pfn_swap_entry_folio
BUG_ON
To fix it, hold ptl lock in smaps_hugetlb_range().
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl
There's a race between a task disabling quotas and another running the
rescan ioctl that can result in a use-after-free of qgroup records from
the fs_info->qgroup_tree rbtree.
This happens as follows:
1) Task A enters btrfs_ioctl_quota_rescan() -> btrfs_qgroup_rescan();
2) Task B enters btrfs_quota_disable() and calls
btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which does nothing because at that
point fs_info->qgroup_rescan_running is false (it wasn't set yet by
task A);
3) Task B calls btrfs_free_qgroup_config() which starts freeing qgroups
from fs_info->qgroup_tree without taking the lock fs_info->qgroup_lock;
4) Task A enters qgroup_rescan_zero_tracking() which starts iterating
the fs_info->qgroup_tree tree while holding fs_info->qgroup_lock,
but task B is freeing qgroup records from that tree without holding
the lock, resulting in a use-after-free.
Fix this by taking fs_info->qgroup_lock at btrfs_free_qgroup_config().
Also at btrfs_qgroup_rescan() don't start the rescan worker if quotas
were already disabled.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: core: config: Prevent OOB read in SS endpoint companion parsing
usb_parse_ss_endpoint_companion() checks descriptor type before length,
enabling a potentially odd read outside of the buffer size.
Fix this up by checking the size first before looking at any of the
fields in the descriptor.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11