Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.16.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled
When a COWing a tree block, at btrfs_cow_block(), and we have the
tracepoint trace_btrfs_cow_block() enabled and preemption is also enabled
(CONFIG_PREEMPT=y), we can trigger a use-after-free in the COWed extent
buffer while inside the tracepoint code. This is because in some paths
that call btrfs_cow_block(), such as btrfs_search_slot(), we are holding
the last reference on the extent buffer @buf so btrfs_force_cow_block()
drops the last reference on the @buf extent buffer when it calls
free_extent_buffer_stale(buf), which schedules the release of the extent
buffer with RCU. This means that if we are on a kernel with preemption,
the current task may be preempted before calling trace_btrfs_cow_block()
and the extent buffer already released by the time trace_btrfs_cow_block()
is called, resulting in a use-after-free.
Fix this by moving the trace_btrfs_cow_block() from btrfs_cow_block() to
btrfs_force_cow_block() before the COWed extent buffer is freed.
This also has a side effect of invoking the tracepoint in the tree defrag
code, at defrag.c:btrfs_realloc_node(), since btrfs_force_cow_block() is
called there, but this is fine and it was actually missing there.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: s5p_cec: limit msg.len to CEC_MAX_MSG_SIZE
I expect that the hardware will have limited this to 16, but just in
case it hasn't, check for this corner case.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: sh7760fb: Fix a possible memory leak in sh7760fb_alloc_mem()
When information such as info->screen_base is not ready, calling
sh7760fb_free_mem() does not release memory correctly. Call
dma_free_coherent() instead.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: check if __rtc_read_time was successful in rtc_timer_do_work()
If the __rtc_read_time call fails,, the struct rtc_time tm; may contain
uninitialized data, or an illegal date/time read from the RTC hardware.
When calling rtc_tm_to_ktime later, the result may be a very large value
(possibly KTIME_MAX). If there are periodic timers in rtc->timerqueue,
they will continually expire, may causing kernel softlockup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node blkaddr in truncate_node()
syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534!
RIP: 0010:f2fs_invalidate_blocks+0x35f/0x370 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534
Call Trace:
truncate_node+0x1ae/0x8c0 fs/f2fs/node.c:909
f2fs_remove_inode_page+0x5c2/0x870 fs/f2fs/node.c:1288
f2fs_evict_inode+0x879/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:856
evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:723
f2fs_handle_failed_inode+0x271/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:986
f2fs_create+0x357/0x530 fs/f2fs/namei.c:394
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3595 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3694 [inline]
path_openat+0x1c03/0x3590 fs/namei.c:3930
do_filp_open+0x235/0x490 fs/namei.c:3960
do_sys_openat2+0x13e/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1415
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1430 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1446 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1441 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x247/0x2a0 fs/open.c:1441
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0010:f2fs_invalidate_blocks+0x35f/0x370 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534
The root cause is: on a fuzzed image, blkaddr in nat entry may be
corrupted, then it will cause system panic when using it in
f2fs_invalidate_blocks(), to avoid this, let's add sanity check on
nat blkaddr in truncate_node().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: u_serial: Fix the issue that gs_start_io crashed due to accessing null pointer
Considering that in some extreme cases,
when u_serial driver is accessed by multiple threads,
Thread A is executing the open operation and calling the gs_open,
Thread B is executing the disconnect operation and calling the
gserial_disconnect function,The port->port_usb pointer will be set to NULL.
E.g.
Thread A Thread B
gs_open() gadget_unbind_driver()
gs_start_io() composite_disconnect()
gs_start_rx() gserial_disconnect()
... ...
spin_unlock(&port->port_lock)
status = usb_ep_queue() spin_lock(&port->port_lock)
spin_lock(&port->port_lock) port->port_usb = NULL
gs_free_requests(port->port_usb->in) spin_unlock(&port->port_lock)
Crash
This causes thread A to access a null pointer (port->port_usb is null)
when calling the gs_free_requests function, causing a crash.
If port_usb is NULL, the release request will be skipped as it
will be done by gserial_disconnect.
So add a null pointer check to gs_start_io before attempting
to access the value of the pointer port->port_usb.
Call trace:
gs_start_io+0x164/0x25c
gs_open+0x108/0x13c
tty_open+0x314/0x638
chrdev_open+0x1b8/0x258
do_dentry_open+0x2c4/0x700
vfs_open+0x2c/0x3c
path_openat+0xa64/0xc60
do_filp_open+0xb8/0x164
do_sys_openat2+0x84/0xf0
__arm64_sys_openat+0x70/0x9c
invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114
el0_svc_common+0x80/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x38/0x68
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: lapb: increase LAPB_HEADER_LEN
It is unclear if net/lapb code is supposed to be ready for 8021q.
We can at least avoid crashes like the following :
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8aabe1f6 len:24 put:20 head:ffff88802824a400 data:ffff88802824a3fe tail:0x16 end:0x140 dev:nr0.2
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5508 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00144-g66418447d27b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024
RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:206 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_under_panic+0x14b/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:216
Code: 0d 8d 48 c7 c6 2e 9e 29 8e 48 8b 54 24 08 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 41 54 41 57 41 56 e8 1a 6f 37 02 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002ddf638 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000086 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 7a24750e538ff600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000201 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888034a86650 R08: ffffffff8174b13c R09: 1ffff920005bbe60
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520005bbe61 R12: 0000000000000140
R13: ffff88802824a400 R14: ffff88802824a3fe R15: 0000000000000016
FS: 00007f2a5990d740(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c2631fd CR3: 0000000029504000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
skb_push+0xe5/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:2636
nr_header+0x36/0x320 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:69
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline]
vlan_dev_hard_header+0x359/0x480 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:83
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline]
lapbeth_data_transmit+0x1f6/0x2a0 drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c:257
lapb_data_transmit+0x91/0xb0 net/lapb/lapb_iface.c:447
lapb_transmit_buffer+0x168/0x1f0 net/lapb/lapb_out.c:149
lapb_establish_data_link+0x84/0xd0
lapb_device_event+0x4e0/0x670
notifier_call_chain+0x19f/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:93
__dev_notify_flags+0x207/0x400
dev_change_flags+0xf0/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8922
devinet_ioctl+0xa4e/0x1aa0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1188
inet_ioctl+0x3d7/0x4f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1003
sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1227
sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1346
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dccp: Fix memory leak in dccp_feat_change_recv
If dccp_feat_push_confirm() fails after new value for SP feature was accepted
without reconciliation ('entry == NULL' branch), memory allocated for that value
with dccp_feat_clone_sp_val() is never freed.
Here is the kmemleak stack for this:
unreferenced object 0xffff88801d4ab488 (size 8):
comm "syz-executor310", pid 1127, jiffies 4295085598 (age 41.666s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
01 b4 4a 1d 80 88 ff ff ..J.....
backtrace:
[<00000000db7cabfe>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128
[<0000000019b38405>] kmemdup include/linux/string.h:465 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:371 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:367 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_change_recv net/dccp/feat.c:1145 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_parse_options+0x1196/0x2180 net/dccp/feat.c:1416
[<00000000b1f6d94a>] dccp_parse_options+0xa2a/0x1260 net/dccp/options.c:125
[<0000000030d7b621>] dccp_rcv_state_process+0x197/0x13d0 net/dccp/input.c:650
[<000000001f74c72e>] dccp_v4_do_rcv+0xf9/0x1a0 net/dccp/ipv4.c:688
[<00000000a6c24128>] sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1041 [inline]
[<00000000a6c24128>] __release_sock+0x139/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2570
[<00000000cf1f3a53>] release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3111
[<000000008422fa23>] inet_wait_for_connect net/ipv4/af_inet.c:603 [inline]
[<000000008422fa23>] __inet_stream_connect+0x5d0/0xf70 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:696
[<0000000015b6f64d>] inet_stream_connect+0x53/0xa0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:735
[<0000000010122488>] __sys_connect_file+0x15c/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1865
[<00000000b4b70023>] __sys_connect+0x165/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1882
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1892 [inline]
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1889 [inline]
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __x64_sys_connect+0x6e/0xb0 net/socket.c:1889
[<00000000e7b1e839>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
[<0000000055e91434>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Clean up the allocated memory in case of dccp_feat_push_confirm() failure
and bail out with an error reset code.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug
arp link failure may trigger ip_rt_bug while xfrm enabled, call trace is:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/route.c:1241 ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-00077-g2e1b3cc9d7f7
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
ip_send_skb+0x14/0x40
__icmp_send+0x42d/0x6a0
ipv4_link_failure+0xe2/0x1d0
arp_error_report+0x3c/0x50
neigh_invalidate+0x8d/0x100
neigh_timer_handler+0x2e1/0x330
call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120
__run_timer_base.part.0+0x1c9/0x270
run_timer_softirq+0x4c/0x80
handle_softirqs+0xac/0x280
irq_exit_rcu+0x62/0x80
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x90
The script below reproduces this scenario:
ip xfrm policy add src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.0.0.0/0 \
dir out priority 0 ptype main flag localok icmp
ip l a veth1 type veth
ip a a 192.168.141.111/24 dev veth0
ip l s veth0 up
ping 192.168.141.155 -c 1
icmp_route_lookup() create input routes for locally generated packets
while xfrm relookup ICMP traffic.Then it will set input route
(dst->out = ip_rt_bug) to skb for DESTUNREACH.
For ICMP err triggered by locally generated packets, dst->dev of output
route is loopback. Generally, xfrm relookup verification is not required
on loopback interfaces (net.ipv4.conf.lo.disable_xfrm = 1).
Skip icmp relookup for locally generated packets to fix it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: x_tables: fix LED ID check in led_tg_check()
Syzbot has reported the following BUG detected by KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strlen+0x58/0x70
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881022da0c8 by task repro/5879
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360
? __pfx_dump_stack_lvl+0x10/0x10
? __pfx__printk+0x10/0x10
? _printk+0xd5/0x120
? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
print_report+0x169/0x550
? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
? __virt_addr_valid+0x45f/0x530
? __phys_addr+0xba/0x170
? strlen+0x58/0x70
kasan_report+0x143/0x180
? strlen+0x58/0x70
strlen+0x58/0x70
kstrdup+0x20/0x80
led_tg_check+0x18b/0x3c0
xt_check_target+0x3bb/0xa40
? __pfx_xt_check_target+0x10/0x10
? stack_depot_save_flags+0x6e4/0x830
? nft_target_init+0x174/0xc30
nft_target_init+0x82d/0xc30
? __pfx_nft_target_init+0x10/0x10
? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
? rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xb0
? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
? nf_tables_newrule+0x1609/0x2980
? __kmalloc_noprof+0x21a/0x400
nf_tables_newrule+0x1860/0x2980
? __pfx_nf_tables_newrule+0x10/0x10
? __nla_parse+0x40/0x60
nfnetlink_rcv+0x14e5/0x2ab0
? __pfx_validate_chain+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv+0x10/0x10
? __lock_acquire+0x1384/0x2050
? netlink_deliver_tap+0x2e/0x1b0
? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
? netlink_deliver_tap+0x2e/0x1b0
netlink_unicast+0x7f8/0x990
? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10
? __virt_addr_valid+0x183/0x530
? __check_object_size+0x48e/0x900
netlink_sendmsg+0x8e4/0xcb0
? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
? aa_sock_msg_perm+0x91/0x160
? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
__sock_sendmsg+0x223/0x270
____sys_sendmsg+0x52a/0x7e0
? __pfx_____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
__sys_sendmsg+0x292/0x380
? __pfx___sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x43d/0x780
? __pfx_lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x10/0x10
? exc_page_fault+0x590/0x8c0
? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x230
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
</TASK>
Since an invalid (without '\0' byte at all) byte sequence may be passed
from userspace, add an extra check to ensure that such a sequence is
rejected as possible ID and so never passed to 'kstrdup()' and further.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27