Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.5 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: pn533: bound the UART receive buffer
pn532_receive_buf() appends every incoming byte to dev->recv_skb and
only resets the buffer after pn532_uart_rx_is_frame() recognizes a
complete frame. A continuous stream of bytes without a valid PN532 frame
header therefore keeps growing the skb until skb_put_u8() hits the tail
limit.
Drop the accumulated partial frame once the fixed receive buffer is full
so malformed UART traffic cannot grow the skb past
PN532_UART_SKB_BUFF_LEN.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: authencesn - Do not place hiseq at end of dst for out-of-place decryption
When decrypting data that is not in-place (src != dst), there is
no need to save the high-order sequence bits in dst as it could
simply be re-copied from the source.
However, the data to be hashed need to be rearranged accordingly.
Thanks,
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: validate LTK enc_size on load
Load Long Term Keys stores the user-provided enc_size and later uses
it to size fixed-size stack operations when replying to LE LTK
requests. An enc_size larger than the 16-byte key buffer can therefore
overflow the reply stack buffer.
Reject oversized enc_size values while validating the management LTK
record so invalid keys never reach the stored key state.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ctnetlink: ignore explicit helper on new expectations
Use the existing master conntrack helper, anything else is not really
supported and it just makes validation more complicated, so just ignore
what helper userspace suggests for this expectation.
This was uncovered when validating CTA_EXPECT_CLASS via different helper
provided by userspace than the existing master conntrack helper:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nf_ct_expect_related_report+0x2479/0x27c0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880043fe408 by task poc/102
Call Trace:
nf_ct_expect_related_report+0x2479/0x27c0
ctnetlink_create_expect+0x22b/0x3b0
ctnetlink_new_expect+0x4bd/0x5c0
nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x67a/0x950
netlink_rcv_skb+0x120/0x350
Allowing to read kernel memory bytes off the expectation boundary.
CTA_EXPECT_HELP_NAME is still used to offer the helper name to userspace
via netlink dump.
CVSS Score
7.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs
__mlx5_lag_dev_add_mdev() may return 0 (success) even when an error
occurs that is handled gracefully. Consequently, the initialization
flow proceeds to call mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() even when there is no
valid LAG context.
mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() blindly created the debugfs directory and
attributes. This exposed interfaces (like the members file) that rely on
a valid ldev pointer, leading to potential NULL pointer dereferences if
accessed when ldev is NULL.
Add a check to verify that mlx5_lag_dev(dev) returns a valid pointer
before attempting to create the debugfs entries.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macb: properly unregister fixed rate clocks
The additional resources allocated with clk_register_fixed_rate() need
to be released with clk_unregister_fixed_rate(), otherwise they are lost.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macb: fix clk handling on PCI glue driver removal
platform_device_unregister() may still want to use the registered clks
during runtime resume callback.
Note that there is a commit d82d5303c4c5 ("net: macb: fix use after free
on rmmod") that addressed the similar problem of clk vs platform device
unregistration but just moved the bug to another place.
Save the pointers to clks into local variables for reuse after platform
device is unregistered.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in clk_prepare+0x5a/0x60
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888104f85e00 by task modprobe/597
CPU: 2 PID: 597 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.164+ #114
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.1-0-g3208b098f51a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xba
print_report+0x17f/0x496
kasan_report+0xd9/0x180
clk_prepare+0x5a/0x60
macb_runtime_resume+0x13d/0x410 [macb]
pm_generic_runtime_resume+0x97/0xd0
__rpm_callback+0xc8/0x4d0
rpm_callback+0xf6/0x230
rpm_resume+0xeeb/0x1a70
__pm_runtime_resume+0xb4/0x170
bus_remove_device+0x2e3/0x4b0
device_del+0x5b3/0xdc0
platform_device_del+0x4e/0x280
platform_device_unregister+0x11/0x50
pci_device_remove+0xae/0x210
device_remove+0xcb/0x180
device_release_driver_internal+0x529/0x770
driver_detach+0xd4/0x1a0
bus_remove_driver+0x135/0x260
driver_unregister+0x72/0xb0
pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x220
__do_sys_delete_module+0x32e/0x550
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
</TASK>
Allocated by task 519:
kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x50
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0x90
__clk_register+0x458/0x2890
clk_hw_register+0x1a/0x60
__clk_hw_register_fixed_rate+0x255/0x410
clk_register_fixed_rate+0x3c/0xa0
macb_probe+0x1d8/0x42e [macb_pci]
local_pci_probe+0xd7/0x190
pci_device_probe+0x252/0x600
really_probe+0x255/0x7f0
__driver_probe_device+0x1ee/0x330
driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1f0
__driver_attach+0x1df/0x4e0
bus_for_each_dev+0x15d/0x1f0
bus_add_driver+0x486/0x5e0
driver_register+0x23a/0x3d0
do_one_initcall+0xfd/0x4d0
do_init_module+0x18b/0x5a0
load_module+0x5663/0x7950
__do_sys_finit_module+0x101/0x180
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Freed by task 597:
kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x50
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x180
__kmem_cache_free+0xbc/0x320
clk_unregister+0x6de/0x8d0
macb_remove+0x73/0xc0 [macb_pci]
pci_device_remove+0xae/0x210
device_remove+0xcb/0x180
device_release_driver_internal+0x529/0x770
driver_detach+0xd4/0x1a0
bus_remove_driver+0x135/0x260
driver_unregister+0x72/0xb0
pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x220
__do_sys_delete_module+0x32e/0x550
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: sockmap: Fix use-after-free of sk->sk_socket in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready().
syzbot reported use-after-free of AF_UNIX socket's sk->sk_socket
in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready(). [0]
In unix_stream_sendmsg(), the peer socket's ->sk_data_ready() is
called after dropping its unix_state_lock().
Although the sender socket holds the peer's refcount, it does not
prevent the peer's sock_orphan(), and the peer's sk_socket might
be freed after one RCU grace period.
Let's fetch the peer's sk->sk_socket and sk->sk_socket->ops under
RCU in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready().
[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880594da860 by task syz.4.1842/11013
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 11013 Comm: syz.4.1842 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x8a3/0xe80 net/unix/af_unix.c:2482
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:721 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2585
___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2639
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2671 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2674
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7facf899c819
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007facf9827028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007facf8c15fa0 RCX: 00007facf899c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007facf8a32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007facf8c16038 R14: 00007facf8c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd41b01c78
</TASK>
Allocated by task 11013:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4538 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x2b8/0x640 mm/slub.c:4885
sock_alloc_inode+0x28/0xc0 net/socket.c:316
alloc_inode+0x6a/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:347
new_inode_pseudo include/linux/fs.h:3003 [inline]
sock_alloc net/socket.c:631 [inline]
__sock_create+0x12d/0x9d0 net/socket.c:1562
sock_create net/socket.c:1656 [inline]
__sys_socketpair+0x1c4/0x560 net/socket.c:1803
__do_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1856 [inline]
__se_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1853 [inline]
__x64_sys_socketpair+0x9b/0xb0 net/socket.c:1853
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 15:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2685 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x630 mm/slub.c:6295
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: validate mesh send advertising payload length
mesh_send() currently bounds MGMT_OP_MESH_SEND by total command
length, but it never verifies that the bytes supplied for the
flexible adv_data[] array actually match the embedded adv_data_len
field. MGMT_MESH_SEND_SIZE only covers the fixed header, so a
truncated command can still pass the existing 20..50 byte range
check and later drive the async mesh send path past the end of the
queued command buffer.
Keep rejecting zero-length and oversized advertising payloads, but
validate adv_data_len explicitly and require the command length to
exactly match the flexible array size before queueing the request.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_event: fix potential UAF in hci_le_remote_conn_param_req_evt
hci_conn lookup and field access must be covered by hdev lock in
hci_le_remote_conn_param_req_evt, otherwise it's possible it is freed
concurrently.
Extend the hci_dev_lock critical section to cover all conn usage.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-01