Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.9 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, test_run: Subtract size of xdp_frame from allowed metadata size
The xdp_frame structure takes up part of the XDP frame headroom,
limiting the size of the metadata. However, in bpf_test_run, we don't
take this into account, which makes it possible for userspace to supply
a metadata size that is too large (taking up the entire headroom).
If userspace supplies such a large metadata size in live packet mode,
the xdp_update_frame_from_buff() call in xdp_test_run_init_page() call
will fail, after which packet transmission proceeds with an
uninitialised frame structure, leading to the usual Bad Stuff.
The commit in the Fixes tag fixed a related bug where the second check
in xdp_update_frame_from_buff() could fail, but did not add any
additional constraints on the metadata size. Complete the fix by adding
an additional check on the metadata size. Reorder the checks slightly to
make the logic clearer and add a comment.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: send: check for inline extents in range_is_hole_in_parent()
Before accessing the disk_bytenr field of a file extent item we need
to check if we are dealing with an inline extent.
This is because for inline extents their data starts at the offset of
the disk_bytenr field. So accessing the disk_bytenr
means we are accessing inline data or in case the inline data is less
than 8 bytes we can actually cause an invalid
memory access if this inline extent item is the first item in the leaf
or access metadata from other items.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/sysfs-scheme: cleanup access_pattern subdirs on scheme dir setup failure
When a DAMOS-scheme DAMON sysfs directory setup fails after setup of
access_pattern/ directory, subdirectories of access_pattern/ directory are
not cleaned up. As a result, DAMON sysfs interface is nearly broken until
the system reboots, and the memory for the unremoved directory is leaked.
Cleanup the directories under such failures.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure
When a context DAMON sysfs directory setup is failed after setup of attrs/
directory, subdirectories of attrs/ directory are not cleaned up. As a
result, DAMON sysfs interface is nearly broken until the system reboots,
and the memory for the unremoved directory is leaked.
Cleanup the directories under such failures.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath10k: fix dma_free_coherent() pointer
dma_alloc_coherent() allocates a DMA mapped buffer and stores the
addresses in XXX_unaligned fields. Those should be reused when freeing
the buffer rather than the aligned addresses.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: unittest: Fix memory leak in unittest_data_add()
In unittest_data_add(), if of_resolve_phandles() fails, the allocated
unittest_data is not freed, leading to a memory leak.
Fix this by using scope-based cleanup helper __free(kfree) for automatic
resource cleanup. This ensures unittest_data is automatically freed when
it goes out of scope in error paths.
For the success path, use retain_and_null_ptr() to transfer ownership
of the memory to the device tree and prevent double freeing.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recording
A bug was reported about an infinite recursion caused by tracing the rcu
events with the kernel stack trace trigger enabled. The stack trace code
called back into RCU which then called the stack trace again.
Expand the ftrace recursion protection to add a set of bits to protect
events from recursion. Each bit represents the context that the event is
in (normal, softirq, interrupt and NMI).
Have the stack trace code use the interrupt context to protect against
recursion.
Note, the bug showed an issue in both the RCU code as well as the tracing
stacktrace code. This only handles the tracing stack trace side of the
bug. The RCU fix will be handled separately.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed
Currently last_gc is being updated everytime a new connection is
tracked, that means that it is updated even if a GC wasn't performed.
With a sufficiently high packet rate, it is possible to always bypass
the GC, causing the list to grow infinitely.
Update the last_gc value only when a GC has been actually performed.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space
Introduce a new IOMMU interface to flush IOTLB paging cache entries for
the CPU kernel address space. This interface is invoked from the x86
architecture code that manages combined user and kernel page tables,
specifically before any kernel page table page is freed and reused.
This addresses the main issue with vfree() which is a common occurrence
and can be triggered by unprivileged users. While this resolves the
primary problem, it doesn't address some extremely rare case related to
memory unplug of memory that was present as reserved memory at boot, which
cannot be triggered by unprivileged users. The discussion can be found at
the link below.
Enable SVA on x86 architecture since the IOMMU can now receive
notification to flush the paging cache before freeing the CPU kernel page
table pages.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: Set __nocfi on swsusp_arch_resume()
A DABT is reported[1] on an android based system when resume from hiberate.
This happens because swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() is marked with SYM_CODE_*()
and does not have a CFI hash, but swsusp_arch_resume() will attempt to
verify the CFI hash when calling a copy of swsusp_arch_suspend_exit().
Given that there's an existing requirement that the entrypoint to
swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() is the first byte of the .hibernate_exit.text
section, we cannot fix this by marking swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() with
SYM_FUNC_*(). The simplest fix for now is to disable the CFI check in
swsusp_arch_resume().
Mark swsusp_arch_resume() as __nocfi to disable the CFI check.
[1]
[ 22.991934][ T1] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000109170ffc
[ 22.991934][ T1] Mem abort info:
[ 22.991934][ T1] ESR = 0x0000000096000007
[ 22.991934][ T1] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 22.991934][ T1] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 22.991934][ T1] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 22.991934][ T1] FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault
[ 22.991934][ T1] Data abort info:
[ 22.991934][ T1] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000007, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 22.991934][ T1] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 22.991934][ T1] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 22.991934][ T1] [0000000109170ffc] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 22.991934][ T1] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 22.991934][ T1] Dumping ftrace buffer:
[ 22.991934][ T1] (ftrace buffer empty)
[ 22.991934][ T1] Modules linked in:
[ 22.991934][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.6.98-android15-8-g0b1d2aee7fc3-dirty-4k #1 688c7060a825a3ac418fe53881730b355915a419
[ 22.991934][ T1] Hardware name: Unisoc UMS9360-base Board (DT)
[ 22.991934][ T1] pstate: 804000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 22.991934][ T1] pc : swsusp_arch_resume+0x2ac/0x344
[ 22.991934][ T1] lr : swsusp_arch_resume+0x294/0x344
[ 22.991934][ T1] sp : ffffffc08006b960
[ 22.991934][ T1] x29: ffffffc08006b9c0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
[ 22.991934][ T1] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000820
[ 22.991934][ T1] x23: ffffffd0817e3000 x22: ffffffd0817e3000 x21: 0000000000000000
[ 22.991934][ T1] x20: ffffff8089171000 x19: ffffffd08252c8c8 x18: ffffffc080061058
[ 22.991934][ T1] x17: 00000000529c6ef0 x16: 00000000529c6ef0 x15: 0000000000000004
[ 22.991934][ T1] x14: ffffff8178c88000 x13: 0000000000000006 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 22.991934][ T1] x11: 0000000000000015 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffffd082533000
[ 22.991934][ T1] x8 : 0000000109171000 x7 : 205b5d3433393139 x6 : 392e32322020205b
[ 22.991934][ T1] x5 : 000000010916f000 x4 : 000000008164b000 x3 : ffffff808a4e0530
[ 22.991934][ T1] x2 : ffffffd08058e784 x1 : 0000000082326000 x0 : 000000010a283000
[ 22.991934][ T1] Call trace:
[ 22.991934][ T1] swsusp_arch_resume+0x2ac/0x344
[ 22.991934][ T1] hibernation_restore+0x158/0x18c
[ 22.991934][ T1] load_image_and_restore+0xb0/0xec
[ 22.991934][ T1] software_resume+0xf4/0x19c
[ 22.991934][ T1] software_resume_initcall+0x34/0x78
[ 22.991934][ T1] do_one_initcall+0xe8/0x370
[ 22.991934][ T1] do_initcall_level+0xc8/0x19c
[ 22.991934][ T1] do_initcalls+0x70/0xc0
[ 22.991934][ T1] do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28
[ 22.991934][ T1] kernel_init_freeable+0xe0/0x148
[ 22.991934][ T1] kernel_init+0x20/0x1a8
[ 22.991934][ T1] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 22.991934][ T1] Code: a9400a61 f94013e0 f9438923 f9400a64 (b85fc110)
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log updated by Mark Rutland]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14