Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.10.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
If pdev is NULL, then it is still dereferenced.
This fixes this smatch warning:
drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.c:570 vpu_load_firmware() warn: address of NULL pointer 'pdev'
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix warning and UAF when destroy the MR list
If the MR allocate failed, the MR recovery work not initialized
and list not cleared. Then will be warning and UAF when release
the MR:
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 824 at kernel/workqueue.c:3066 __flush_work.isra.0+0xf7/0x110
CPU: 4 PID: 824 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5+ #82
RIP: 0010:__flush_work.isra.0+0xf7/0x110
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__cancel_work_timer+0x2ba/0x2e0
smbd_destroy+0x4e1/0x990
_smbd_get_connection+0x1cbd/0x2110
smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40
cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0
mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750
cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0
smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
__x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in smbd_destroy+0x4fc/0x990
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810b156a08 by task mount.cifs/824
CPU: 4 PID: 824 Comm: mount.cifs Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc5+ #82
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
print_report+0x171/0x472
kasan_report+0xad/0x130
smbd_destroy+0x4fc/0x990
_smbd_get_connection+0x1cbd/0x2110
smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40
cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0
mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750
cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0
smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
__x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Allocated by task 824:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x7a/0x90
_smbd_get_connection+0x1b6f/0x2110
smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40
cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0
mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750
cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0
smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
__x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Freed by task 824:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40
____kasan_slab_free+0x143/0x1b0
__kmem_cache_free+0xc8/0x330
_smbd_get_connection+0x1c6a/0x2110
smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40
cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0
mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750
cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0
smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
__x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Let's initialize the MR recovery work before MR allocate to prevent
the warning, remove the MRs from the list to prevent the UAF.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: don't check PageError in __extent_writepage
__extent_writepage currenly sets PageError whenever any error happens,
and the also checks for PageError to decide if to call error handling.
This leads to very unclear responsibility for cleaning up on errors.
In the VM and generic writeback helpers the basic idea is that once
I/O is fired off all error handling responsibility is delegated to the
end I/O handler. But if that end I/O handler sets the PageError bit,
and the submitter checks it, the bit could in some cases leak into the
submission context for fast enough I/O.
Fix this by simply not checking PageError and just using the local
ret variable to check for submission errors. This also fundamentally
solves the long problem documented in a comment in __extent_writepage
by never leaking the error bit into the submission context.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/panfrost: Fix GEM handle creation ref-counting
panfrost_gem_create_with_handle() previously returned a BO but with the
only reference being from the handle, which user space could in theory
guess and release, causing a use-after-free. Additionally if the call to
panfrost_gem_mapping_get() in panfrost_ioctl_create_bo() failed then
a(nother) reference on the BO was dropped.
The _create_with_handle() is a problematic pattern, so ditch it and
instead create the handle in panfrost_ioctl_create_bo(). If the call to
panfrost_gem_mapping_get() fails then this means that user space has
indeed gone behind our back and freed the handle. In which case just
return an error code.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: mhi: fix potential memory leak in ath11k_mhi_register()
mhi_alloc_controller() allocates a memory space for mhi_ctrl. When gets
some error, mhi_ctrl should be freed with mhi_free_controller(). But
when ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails, the function returns without
calling mhi_free_controller(), which will lead to a memory leak.
We can fix it by calling mhi_free_controller() when
ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix attempting to call device_add multiple times
device_add shall not be called multiple times as stated in its
documentation:
'Do not call this routine or device_register() more than once for
any device structure'
Syzkaller reports a bug as follows [1]:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:33!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__list_add include/linux/list.h:69 [inline]
list_add_tail include/linux/list.h:102 [inline]
kobj_kset_join lib/kobject.c:164 [inline]
kobject_add_internal+0x18f/0x8f0 lib/kobject.c:214
kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:358 [inline]
kobject_add+0x150/0x1c0 lib/kobject.c:410
device_add+0x368/0x1e90 drivers/base/core.c:3452
hci_conn_add_sysfs+0x9b/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:53
hci_le_cis_estabilished_evt+0x57c/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6799
hci_le_meta_evt+0x2b8/0x510 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7110
hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7440 [inline]
hci_event_packet+0x63d/0xfd0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7495
hci_rx_work+0xae7/0x1230 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4007
process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcu: Protect rcu_print_task_exp_stall() ->exp_tasks access
For kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y, the following scenario can
result in a NULL-pointer dereference:
CPU1 CPU2
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore rcu_print_task_exp_stall
if (special.b.blocked) READ_ONCE(rnp->exp_tasks) != NULL
raw_spin_lock_rcu_node
np = rcu_next_node_entry(t, rnp)
if (&t->rcu_node_entry == rnp->exp_tasks)
WRITE_ONCE(rnp->exp_tasks, np)
....
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node
raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node
t = list_entry(rnp->exp_tasks->prev,
struct task_struct, rcu_node_entry)
(if rnp->exp_tasks is NULL, this
will dereference a NULL pointer)
The problem is that CPU2 accesses the rcu_node structure's->exp_tasks
field without holding the rcu_node structure's ->lock and CPU2 did
not observe CPU1's change to rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks in time.
Therefore, if CPU1 sets rcu_node structure's->exp_tasks pointer to NULL,
then CPU2 might dereference that NULL pointer.
This commit therefore holds the rcu_node structure's ->lock while
accessing that structure's->exp_tasks field.
[ paulmck: Apply Frederic Weisbecker feedback. ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()
When blkg_alloc() is called to allocate a blkcg_gq structure
with the associated blkg_iostat_set's, there are 2 fields within
blkg_iostat_set that requires proper initialization - blkg & sync.
The former field was introduced by commit 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup:
Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") while the later one was introduced by
commit f73316482977 ("blk-cgroup: reimplement basic IO stats using
cgroup rstat").
Unfortunately those fields in the blkg_iostat_set's are not properly
re-initialized when they are cleared in v1's blkcg_reset_stats(). This
can lead to a kernel panic due to NULL pointer access of the blkg
pointer. The missing initialization of sync is less problematic and
can be a problem in a debug kernel due to missing lockdep initialization.
Fix these problems by re-initializing them after memory clearing.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()
> ret = brcmf_proto_tx_queue_data(drvr, ifp->ifidx, skb);
may be schedule, and then complete before the line
> ndev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
[ 46.912801] ==================================================================
[ 46.920552] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit+0x718/0x8c8 [brcmfmac]
[ 46.928673] Read of size 4 at addr ffffff803f5882e8 by task systemd-resolve/328
[ 46.935991]
[ 46.937514] CPU: 1 PID: 328 Comm: systemd-resolve Tainted: G O 5.4.199-[REDACTED] #1
[ 46.947255] Hardware name: [REDACTED]
[ 46.954568] Call trace:
[ 46.957037] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2b8
[ 46.960719] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[ 46.964052] dump_stack+0x128/0x194
[ 46.967557] print_address_description.isra.0+0x64/0x380
[ 46.972877] __kasan_report+0x1d4/0x240
[ 46.976723] kasan_report+0xc/0x18
[ 46.980138] __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x18/0x20
[ 46.985027] brcmf_netdev_start_xmit+0x718/0x8c8 [brcmfmac]
[ 46.990613] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1bc/0xda0
[ 46.994894] sch_direct_xmit+0x198/0xd08
[ 46.998827] __qdisc_run+0x37c/0x1dc0
[ 47.002500] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1528/0x21f8
[ 47.006692] dev_queue_xmit+0x24/0x30
[ 47.010366] neigh_resolve_output+0x37c/0x678
[ 47.014734] ip_finish_output2+0x598/0x2458
[ 47.018927] __ip_finish_output+0x300/0x730
[ 47.023118] ip_output+0x2e0/0x430
[ 47.026530] ip_local_out+0x90/0x140
[ 47.030117] igmpv3_sendpack+0x14c/0x228
[ 47.034049] igmpv3_send_cr+0x384/0x6b8
[ 47.037895] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x4c/0x118
[ 47.042262] call_timer_fn+0x1cc/0xbe8
[ 47.046021] __run_timers+0x4d8/0xb28
[ 47.049693] run_timer_softirq+0x24/0x40
[ 47.053626] __do_softirq+0x2c0/0x117c
[ 47.057387] irq_exit+0x2dc/0x388
[ 47.060715] __handle_domain_irq+0xb4/0x158
[ 47.064908] gic_handle_irq+0x58/0xb0
[ 47.068581] el0_irq_naked+0x50/0x5c
[ 47.072162]
[ 47.073665] Allocated by task 328:
[ 47.077083] save_stack+0x24/0xb0
[ 47.080410] __kasan_kmalloc.isra.0+0xc0/0xe0
[ 47.084776] kasan_slab_alloc+0x14/0x20
[ 47.088622] kmem_cache_alloc+0x15c/0x468
[ 47.092643] __alloc_skb+0xa4/0x498
[ 47.096142] igmpv3_newpack+0x158/0xd78
[ 47.099987] add_grhead+0x210/0x288
[ 47.103485] add_grec+0x6b0/0xb70
[ 47.106811] igmpv3_send_cr+0x2e0/0x6b8
[ 47.110657] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x4c/0x118
[ 47.115027] call_timer_fn+0x1cc/0xbe8
[ 47.118785] __run_timers+0x4d8/0xb28
[ 47.122457] run_timer_softirq+0x24/0x40
[ 47.126389] __do_softirq+0x2c0/0x117c
[ 47.130142]
[ 47.131643] Freed by task 180:
[ 47.134712] save_stack+0x24/0xb0
[ 47.138041] __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x180
[ 47.142146] kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
[ 47.145904] slab_free_freelist_hook+0xa4/0x1b0
[ 47.150444] kmem_cache_free+0x8c/0x528
[ 47.154292] kfree_skbmem+0x94/0x108
[ 47.157880] consume_skb+0x10c/0x5a8
[ 47.161466] __dev_kfree_skb_any+0x88/0xa0
[ 47.165598] brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb+0x44/0x68 [brcmutil]
[ 47.171023] brcmf_txfinalize+0xec/0x190 [brcmfmac]
[ 47.176016] brcmf_proto_bcdc_txcomplete+0x1c0/0x210 [brcmfmac]
[ 47.182056] brcmf_sdio_sendfromq+0x8dc/0x1e80 [brcmfmac]
[ 47.187568] brcmf_sdio_dpc+0xb48/0x2108 [brcmfmac]
[ 47.192529] brcmf_sdio_dataworker+0xc8/0x238 [brcmfmac]
[ 47.197859] process_one_work+0x7fc/0x1a80
[ 47.201965] worker_thread+0x31c/0xc40
[ 47.205726] kthread+0x2d8/0x370
[ 47.208967] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[ 47.212546]
[ 47.214051] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffff803f588280
[ 47.214051] which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 208
[ 47.227086] The buggy address is located 104 bytes inside of
[ 47.227086] 208-byte region [ffffff803f588280, ffffff803f588350)
[ 47.238814] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[ 47.243618] page:ffffffff00dd6200 refcount:1 mapcou
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: If sock is dead don't access sock's sk_wq in sk_stream_wait_memory
Fixes the below NULL pointer dereference:
[...]
[ 14.471200] Call Trace:
[ 14.471562] <TASK>
[ 14.471882] lock_acquire+0x245/0x2e0
[ 14.472416] ? remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50
[ 14.473014] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x17/0x50
[ 14.473681] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3d/0x50
[ 14.474318] ? remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50
[ 14.474907] remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50
[ 14.475480] sk_stream_wait_memory+0x20d/0x340
[ 14.476127] ? do_wait_intr_irq+0x80/0x80
[ 14.476704] do_tcp_sendpages+0x287/0x600
[ 14.477283] tcp_bpf_push+0xab/0x260
[ 14.477817] tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir+0x297/0x500
[ 14.478461] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x77/0xe0
[ 14.479096] tcp_bpf_send_verdict+0x105/0x470
[ 14.479729] tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x318/0x4f0
[ 14.480311] sock_sendmsg+0x2d/0x40
[ 14.480822] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1b4/0x1c0
[ 14.481390] ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x62/0x80
[ 14.482048] ___sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0
[ 14.482580] ? vmf_insert_pfn_prot+0x91/0x150
[ 14.483215] ? __do_fault+0x2a/0x1a0
[ 14.483738] ? do_fault+0x15e/0x5d0
[ 14.484246] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x56b/0x1040
[ 14.484874] ? lock_is_held_type+0xdf/0x130
[ 14.485474] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90
[ 14.486046] ? __sys_sendmsg+0x41/0x70
[ 14.486587] __sys_sendmsg+0x41/0x70
[ 14.487105] ? intel_pmu_drain_pebs_core+0x350/0x350
[ 14.487822] do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80
[ 14.488345] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[...]
The test scenario has the following flow:
thread1 thread2
----------- ---------------
tcp_bpf_sendmsg
tcp_bpf_send_verdict
tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir sock_close
tcp_bpf_push_locked __sock_release
tcp_bpf_push //inet_release
do_tcp_sendpages sock->ops->release
sk_stream_wait_memory // tcp_close
sk_wait_event sk->sk_prot->close
release_sock(__sk);
***
lock_sock(sk);
__tcp_close
sock_orphan(sk)
sk->sk_wq = NULL
release_sock
****
lock_sock(__sk);
remove_wait_queue(sk_sleep(sk), &wait);
sk_sleep(sk)
//NULL pointer dereference
&rcu_dereference_raw(sk->sk_wq)->wait
While waiting for memory in thread1, the socket is released with its wait
queue because thread2 has closed it. This caused by tcp_bpf_send_verdict
didn't increase the f_count of psock->sk_redir->sk_socket->file in thread1.
We should check if SOCK_DEAD flag is set on wakeup in sk_stream_wait_memory
before accessing the wait queue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18