Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.18.5 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm: bridge: anx7625: Fix NULL pointer dereference with early IRQ
If the interrupt occurs before resource initialization is complete, the
interrupt handler/worker may access uninitialized data such as the I2C
tcpc_client device, potentially leading to NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from
device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly
uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.
On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752"
acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:
rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;
and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail
and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.
rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash
by initializing type_name to NULL.
Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:
1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: qcom: q6apm-lpass-dais: Fix NULL pointer dereference if source graph failed
If earlier opening of source graph fails (e.g. ADSP rejects due to
incorrect audioreach topology), the graph is closed and
"dai_data->graph[dai->id]" is assigned NULL. Preparing the DAI for sink
graph continues though and next call to q6apm_lpass_dai_prepare()
receives dai_data->graph[dai->id]=NULL leading to NULL pointer
exception:
qcom-apm gprsvc:service:2:1: Error (1) Processing 0x01001002 cmd
qcom-apm gprsvc:service:2:1: DSP returned error[1001002] 1
q6apm-lpass-dais 30000000.remoteproc:glink-edge:gpr:service@1:bedais: fail to start APM port 78
q6apm-lpass-dais 30000000.remoteproc:glink-edge:gpr:service@1:bedais: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_dai_prepare on TX_CODEC_DMA_TX_3: -22
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a8
...
Call trace:
q6apm_graph_media_format_pcm+0x48/0x120 (P)
q6apm_lpass_dai_prepare+0x110/0x1b4
snd_soc_pcm_dai_prepare+0x74/0x108
__soc_pcm_prepare+0x44/0x160
dpcm_be_dai_prepare+0x124/0x1c0
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow
There's a possible integer overflow in stripe_io_hints if we have too
large chunk size. Test if the overflow happened, and if it did, don't set
limits->io_min and limits->io_opt;
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg
If an error causes af_alg_sendmsg to abort, ctx->merge may contain
a garbage value from the previous loop. This may then trigger a
crash on the next entry into af_alg_sendmsg when it attempts to do
a merge that can't be done.
Fix this by setting ctx->merge to zero near the start of the loop.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: let smbd_destroy() call disable_work_sync(&info->post_send_credits_work)
In smbd_destroy() we may destroy the memory so we better
wait until post_send_credits_work is no longer pending
and will never be started again.
I actually just hit the case using rxe:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 138 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c:1032 rxe_post_recv+0x1ee/0x480 [rdma_rxe]
...
[ 5305.686979] [ T138] smbd_post_recv+0x445/0xc10 [cifs]
[ 5305.687135] [ T138] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 5305.687149] [ T138] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
[ 5305.687185] [ T138] ? __pfx_smbd_post_recv+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
[ 5305.687329] [ T138] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
[ 5305.687356] [ T138] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 5305.687368] [ T138] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 5305.687378] [ T138] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x60
[ 5305.687389] [ T138] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 5305.687399] [ T138] ? get_receive_buffer+0x168/0x210 [cifs]
[ 5305.687555] [ T138] smbd_post_send_credits+0x382/0x4b0 [cifs]
[ 5305.687701] [ T138] ? __pfx_smbd_post_send_credits+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
[ 5305.687855] [ T138] ? __pfx___schedule+0x10/0x10
[ 5305.687865] [ T138] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10
[ 5305.687875] [ T138] ? queue_delayed_work_on+0x8e/0xa0
[ 5305.687889] [ T138] process_one_work+0x629/0xf80
[ 5305.687908] [ T138] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 5305.687917] [ T138] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
[ 5305.687933] [ T138] worker_thread+0x87f/0x1570
...
It means rxe_post_recv was called after rdma_destroy_qp().
This happened because put_receive_buffer() was triggered
by ib_drain_qp() and called:
queue_work(info->workqueue, &info->post_send_credits_work);
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix smbdirect_recv_io leak in smbd_negotiate() error path
During tests of another unrelated patch I was able to trigger this
error: Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/cma: Allow UD qp_type to join multicast only
As for multicast:
- The SIDR is the only mode that makes sense;
- Besides PS_UDP, other port spaces like PS_IB is also allowed, as it is
UD compatible. In this case qkey also needs to be set [1].
This patch allows only UD qp_type to join multicast, and set qkey to
default if it's not set, to fix an uninit-value error: the ib->rec.qkey
field is accessed without being initialized.
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cma_set_qkey drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:510 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cma_make_mc_event+0xb73/0xe00 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4570
cma_set_qkey drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:510 [inline]
cma_make_mc_event+0xb73/0xe00 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4570
cma_iboe_join_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4782 [inline]
rdma_join_multicast+0x2b83/0x30a0 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4814
ucma_process_join+0xa76/0xf60 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1479
ucma_join_multicast+0x1e3/0x250 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1546
ucma_write+0x639/0x6d0 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1732
vfs_write+0x8ce/0x2030 fs/read_write.c:588
ksys_write+0x28c/0x520 fs/read_write.c:643
__do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline]
__se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline]
__ia32_sys_write+0xdb/0x120 fs/read_write.c:652
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x96/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:180
do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:205
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:248
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x4d/0x5c
Local variable ib.i created at:
cma_iboe_join_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4737 [inline]
rdma_join_multicast+0x586/0x30a0 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:4814
ucma_process_join+0xa76/0xf60 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1479
CPU: 0 PID: 29874 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
=====================================================
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20220117183832.GD84788@nvidia.com/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb
Kmemleak shows the following leak arising from routine in the usb
probe routine:
unreferenced object 0xffff895cb29bba00 (size 512):
comm "(udev-worker)", pid 534, jiffies 4294903932 (age 102751.088s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
77 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 02 2f 2d 2b 30 00 00 00 w000...../-+0...
02 00 2a 28 00 00 00 00 ff 55 ff ff ff 00 00 00 ..*(.....U......
backtrace:
[<ffffffff9265fa36>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90
[<ffffffffc17eec41>] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb]
[<ffffffffc03e19fd>] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore]
[<ffffffff92b4f2fe>] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0
[<ffffffff92b4f5b8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
[<ffffffff92b4f6bf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[<ffffffff92b4f8df>] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0
[<ffffffff92b4d350>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
[<ffffffff92b4e51e>] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210
[<ffffffff92b50935>] driver_register+0x55/0xf0
[<ffffffffc03e0708>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore]
[<ffffffff92401153>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210
[<ffffffff9254f42a>] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200
[<ffffffff92551d1c>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120
[<ffffffff92ee6626>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80
[<ffffffff9300006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The leak was verified to be real by unloading the driver, which resulted
in a dangling pointer to the allocation.
The allocated memory is freed in rtw_usb_intf_deinit().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
null_blk: fix poll request timeout handling
When doing io_uring benchmark on /dev/nullb0, it's easy to crash the
kernel if poll requests timeout triggered, as reported by David. [1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_timeout_work
RIP: 0010:null_timeout_rq+0x4e/0x91
Call Trace:
? null_timeout_rq+0x4e/0x91
blk_mq_handle_expired+0x31/0x4b
bt_iter+0x68/0x84
? bt_tags_iter+0x81/0x81
__sbitmap_for_each_set.constprop.0+0xb0/0xf2
? __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xf/0xf
bt_for_each+0x46/0x64
? __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xf/0xf
? percpu_ref_get_many+0xc/0x2a
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x14d/0x18e
blk_mq_timeout_work+0x95/0x127
process_one_work+0x185/0x263
worker_thread+0x1b5/0x227
This is indeed a race problem between null_timeout_rq() and null_poll().
null_poll() null_timeout_rq()
spin_lock(&nq->poll_lock)
list_splice_init(&nq->poll_list, &list)
spin_unlock(&nq->poll_lock)
while (!list_empty(&list))
req = list_first_entry()
list_del_init()
...
blk_mq_add_to_batch()
// req->rq_next = NULL
spin_lock(&nq->poll_lock)
// rq->queuelist->next == NULL
list_del_init(&rq->queuelist)
spin_unlock(&nq->poll_lock)
Fix these problems by setting requests state to MQ_RQ_COMPLETE under
nq->poll_lock protection, in which null_timeout_rq() can safely detect
this race and early return.
Note this patch just fix the kernel panic when request timeout happen.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/3893581.1691785261@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01