Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.297 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksm: use range-walk function to jump over holes in scan_get_next_rmap_item
Currently, scan_get_next_rmap_item() walks every page address in a VMA to
locate mergeable pages. This becomes highly inefficient when scanning
large virtual memory areas that contain mostly unmapped regions, causing
ksmd to use large amount of cpu without deduplicating much pages.
This patch replaces the per-address lookup with a range walk using
walk_page_range(). The range walker allows KSM to skip over entire
unmapped holes in a VMA, avoiding unnecessary lookups. This problem was
previously discussed in [1].
Consider the following test program which creates a 32 TiB mapping in the
virtual address space but only populates a single page:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
/* 32 TiB */
const size_t size = 32ul * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
int main() {
char *area = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_NORESERVE | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
if (area == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap() failed\n");
return -1;
}
/* Populate a single page such that we get an anon_vma. */
*area = 0;
/* Enable KSM. */
madvise(area, size, MADV_MERGEABLE);
pause();
return 0;
}
$ ./ksm-sparse &
$ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
Without this patch ksmd uses 100% of the cpu for a long time (more then 1
hour in my test machine) scanning all the 32 TiB virtual address space
that contain only one mapped page. This makes ksmd essentially deadlocked
not able to deduplicate anything of value. With this patch ksmd walks
only the one mapped page and skips the rest of the 32 TiB virtual address
space, making the scan fast using little cpu.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-12-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usbnet: Fix using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code warnings
Syzbot reported the following warning:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: dhcpcd/2879
caller is usbnet_skb_return+0x74/0x490 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:331
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2879 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00098-g615dca38c2ea #0 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
check_preemption_disabled+0xd0/0xe0 lib/smp_processor_id.c:49
usbnet_skb_return+0x74/0x490 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:331
usbnet_resume_rx+0x4b/0x170 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:708
usbnet_change_mtu+0x1be/0x220 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:417
__dev_set_mtu net/core/dev.c:9443 [inline]
netif_set_mtu_ext+0x369/0x5c0 net/core/dev.c:9496
netif_set_mtu+0xb0/0x160 net/core/dev.c:9520
dev_set_mtu+0xae/0x170 net/core/dev_api.c:247
dev_ifsioc+0xa31/0x18d0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:572
dev_ioctl+0x223/0x10e0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:821
sock_do_ioctl+0x19d/0x280 net/socket.c:1204
sock_ioctl+0x42f/0x6a0 net/socket.c:1311
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x190/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x260 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
For historical and portability reasons, the netif_rx() is usually
run in the softirq or interrupt context, this commit therefore add
local_bh_disable/enable() protection in the usbnet_resume_rx().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-11-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tls: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in get_netdev_for_sock().
get_netdev_for_sock() is called during setsockopt(),
so not under RCU.
Using sk_dst_get(sk)->dev could trigger UAF.
Let's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu().
Note that the only ->ndo_sk_get_lower_dev() user is
bond_sk_get_lower_dev(), which uses RCU.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-11-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_uni2asc+0xa71/0xb90 fs/hfsplus/unicode.c:186
Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880289ef218 by task syz.6.248/14290
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14290 Comm: syz.6.248 Not tainted 6.16.4 #1 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x5f0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xca/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:595
hfsplus_uni2asc+0xa71/0xb90 fs/hfsplus/unicode.c:186
hfsplus_listxattr+0x5b6/0xbd0 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:738
vfs_listxattr+0xbe/0x140 fs/xattr.c:493
listxattr+0xee/0x190 fs/xattr.c:924
filename_listxattr fs/xattr.c:958 [inline]
path_listxattrat+0x143/0x360 fs/xattr.c:988
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe0e9fae16d
Code: 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe0eae67f98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000c3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe0ea205fa0 RCX: 00007fe0e9fae16d
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fe0ea0480f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe0ea206038 R14: 00007fe0ea205fa0 R15: 00007fe0eae48000
</TASK>
Allocated by task 14290:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:47
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4333 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x219/0x540 mm/slub.c:4345
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
hfsplus_find_init+0x95/0x1f0 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:21
hfsplus_listxattr+0x331/0xbd0 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:697
vfs_listxattr+0xbe/0x140 fs/xattr.c:493
listxattr+0xee/0x190 fs/xattr.c:924
filename_listxattr fs/xattr.c:958 [inline]
path_listxattrat+0x143/0x360 fs/xattr.c:988
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
When hfsplus_uni2asc is called from hfsplus_listxattr,
it actually passes in a struct hfsplus_attr_unistr*.
The size of the corresponding structure is different from that of hfsplus_unistr,
so the previous fix (94458781aee6) is insufficient.
The pointer on the unicode buffer is still going beyond the allocated memory.
This patch introduces two warpper functions hfsplus_uni2asc_xattr_str and
hfsplus_uni2asc_str to process two unicode buffers,
struct hfsplus_attr_unistr* and struct hfsplus_unistr* respectively.
When ustrlen value is bigger than the allocated memory size,
the ustrlen value is limited to an safe size.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise
syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)
[ 44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!
[ 44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
[ 44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)
[ 44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460
<snip other registers, drop unreliable trace>
[ 44.617726] Call Trace:
[ 44.617926] <TASK>
[ 44.619284] userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0
[ 44.620976] __fput+0x3f9/0xb60
[ 44.621240] fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210
[ 44.622222] __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120
[ 44.622530] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0
[ 44.622840] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227
Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during
userfaultfd_release_all(). Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer
to vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma->vm_flags.
The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()
with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,
it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of
vma->vm_flags.
Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and
int are 32-bit wide. This setup causes the following mishap during the &=
~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.
VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000.
After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then
promoted to unsigned long before the & operation. This promotion fills
upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and
even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0).
& operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff
instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears
the upper 32-bits of its value.
Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the
BIT() macro.
Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the
VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int
and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted
to unsigned long with leading 1s.
Note 2:
After commit 31defc3b01d9 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is
no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:
[ 45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067
but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font
Fix integer overflow vulnerabilities in fbcon_do_set_font() where font
size calculations could overflow when handling user-controlled font
parameters.
The vulnerabilities occur when:
1. CALC_FONTSZ(h, pitch, charcount) performs h * pith * charcount
multiplication with user-controlled values that can overflow.
2. FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int) + size addition can also overflow
3. This results in smaller allocations than expected, leading to buffer
overflows during font data copying.
Add explicit overflow checking using check_mul_overflow() and
check_add_overflow() kernel helpers to safety validate all size
calculations before allocation.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg
Issuing two writes to the same af_alg socket is bogus as the
data will be interleaved in an unpredictable fashion. Furthermore,
concurrent writes may create inconsistencies in the internal
socket state.
Disallow this by adding a new ctx->write field that indiciates
exclusive ownership for writing.
CVSS Score
3.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level
The AMD IOMMU host page table implementation supports dynamic page table levels
(up to 6 levels), starting with a 3-level configuration that expands based on
IOVA address. The kernel maintains a root pointer and current page table level
to enable proper page table walks in alloc_pte()/fetch_pte() operations.
The IOMMU IOVA allocator initially starts with 32-bit address and onces its
exhuasted it switches to 64-bit address (max address is determined based
on IOMMU and device DMA capability). To support larger IOVA, AMD IOMMU
driver increases page table level.
But in unmap path (iommu_v1_unmap_pages()), fetch_pte() reads
pgtable->[root/mode] without lock. So its possible that in exteme corner case,
when increase_address_space() is updating pgtable->[root/mode], fetch_pte()
reads wrong page table level (pgtable->mode). It does compare the value with
level encoded in page table and returns NULL. This will result is
iommu_unmap ops to fail and upper layer may retry/log WARN_ON.
CPU 0 CPU 1
------ ------
map pages unmap pages
alloc_pte() -> increase_address_space() iommu_v1_unmap_pages() -> fetch_pte()
pgtable->root = pte (new root value)
READ pgtable->[mode/root]
Reads new root, old mode
Updates mode (pgtable->mode += 1)
Since Page table level updates are infrequent and already synchronized with a
spinlock, implement seqcount to enable lock-free read operations on the read path.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect().
syzbot reported the splat below where a socket had tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk
in the TCP_ESTABLISHED state. [0]
syzbot reused the server-side TCP Fast Open socket as a new client before
the TFO socket completes 3WHS:
1. accept()
2. connect(AF_UNSPEC)
3. connect() to another destination
As of accept(), sk->sk_state is TCP_SYN_RECV, and tcp_disconnect() changes
it to TCP_CLOSE and makes connect() possible, which restarts timers.
Since tcp_disconnect() forgot to clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk, the
retransmit timer triggered the warning and the intended packet was not
retransmitted.
Let's call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_disconnect().
[0]:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 tcp_retransmit_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 (discriminator 7))
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc5-g201825fb4278 #62 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:tcp_retransmit_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 (discriminator 7))
Code: 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 8b af b8 08 00 00 48 89 fb 48 85 ed 0f 84 55 01 00 00 0f b6 47 12 3c 03 74 0c 0f b6 47 12 3c 04 74 04 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8b 85 c0 00 00 00 48 89 ef 48 8b 40 30 e8 6a 4f 06 3e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002f8d40 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff888106911400 RCX: 0000000000000017
RDX: 0000000002517619 RSI: ffffffff83764080 RDI: ffff888106911400
RBP: ffff888106d5c000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffc900002f8de8
R10: 00000000000000c2 R11: ffffc900002f8ff8 R12: ffff888106911540
R13: ffff888106911480 R14: ffff888106911840 R15: ffffc900002f8de0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88907b768000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8044d69d90 CR3: 0000000002c30003 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
tcp_write_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:738)
call_timer_fn (kernel/time/timer.c:1747)
__run_timers (kernel/time/timer.c:1799 kernel/time/timer.c:2372)
timer_expire_remote (kernel/time/timer.c:2385 kernel/time/timer.c:2376 kernel/time/timer.c:2135)
tmigr_handle_remote_up (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:944 kernel/time/timer_migration.c:1035)
__walk_groups.isra.0 (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:533 (discriminator 1))
tmigr_handle_remote (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:1096)
handle_softirqs (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:580)
irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:614 kernel/softirq.c:453 kernel/softirq.c:680 kernel/softirq.c:696)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 (discriminator 35) arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 (discriminator 35))
</IRQ>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL
OPDESC() simply indexes into nfsd4_ops[] by the op's operation
number, without range checking that value. It assumes callers are
careful to avoid calling it with an out-of-bounds opnum value.
nfsd4_decode_compound() is not so careful, and can invoke OPDESC()
with opnum set to OP_ILLEGAL, which is 10044 -- well beyond the end
of nfsd4_ops[].
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07